After 9 years within the making, The Accountant 2 is lastly set to launch, and it is lots completely different from the primary film. Director Gavin O’Connor and star Ben Affleck return to choose up the story of the sensible Christian Wolff, who, this time, is joined by his brother Brax (Daredevil: Born Once more’s Jon Bernthal). That’s not all although, as J.Okay. Simmons’ Ray King and Cyntha Addai-Robinson’s Marybeth Media additionally return.
New to The Accountant 2 cast is Daniella Pineda, who performs Anaïs. Because the film’s antagonist, Pineda was ready so as to add a brand new villainous position to her resumé, which incorporates Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and American Odyssey. Though Anaïs is a villain, she can also be a posh character who is vital to a number of the movie’s most attention-grabbing moments.
ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley interviewed The Accountant 2 director Gavin O’Connor and stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Daniella Pineda at SXSW. They mentioned the lengthy anticipate the sequel and what’s in retailer for his or her characters within the movie. Plus, Pineda and Addai-Robinson teased their upcoming tasks, together with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy season 3.
The Lengthy Wait For The Accountant 2 Was In Half Due To “Musical Chairs” at Warner Brothers
The Movie Was Tied Up At That Studio Till WB Allowed It To Go Elsewhere
The Accountant launched in 2016, and director Gavin O’Connor set out attempting to make a sequel shortly after. “There was some musical chairs being performed at Warner Brothers in regard to the regime modifications,” O’Connor started when requested why the wait was so lengthy, “There was Covid, there have been lockdowns, there was a strike… so it [had] some begins and stops.”
Affleck is a part of the explanation why O’Connor was lastly capable of get the film off the bottom. “Ben began his personal studio with Matt [Damon],” O’Conor mentioned. He continued: “I do not know all the main points. I don’t know if Warner Brothers didn’t wish to do a co-[finance] or co-studio [deal] … however they very generously allowed us to take the film elsewhere. The primary place we went was Amazon, and we fashioned a partnership with them.”
Cynthia Addai-Robinson Teases Marybeth’s New Journey In The Accountant 2
“A Totally different Expertise Total”
The trailer for The Accountant 2 kills off Simmons’ Ray King, who Marybeth Medina labored intently with within the first movie. “He’s there, and I’m not completely alone,” Addai-Robinson mentioned when requested the way it was to work with out Simmons, “but it surely was good to really feel an evolution each for Marybeth as a personality and for me as an individual, as a result of eight, occurring 9 years have elapsed between the primary [film] and the second.”
“For me,” Addai-Robinson continued, “The thrill was not simply attending to see J.Okay. once more–though [in] a really completely different set of circumstances from the primary film–however attending to work with Ben and Jon and Daniella and simply having a distinct expertise general.”
Later within the interview, Addai-Robinson elaborated on an enormous a part of that completely different expertise: “Within the first film, I didn’t get to work with Ben. I didn’t get to work with Jon. I simply acquired to kind of admire their work from afar.” In The Accountant 2, Marybeth Medina could be very a lot within the combine with the Wolff brothers.
“I’m just like the straight man between these two attention-grabbing brothers,” Addai-Robinson acknowledged, “simply attempting to sq. my sense of what I outline as getting justice [and] following the rule of regulation with their model of that … however one of many issues that basically resonates with me when it comes to the story we’re telling is that this relationship between brothers and household and watching that play out.”
That dynamic is likely one of the story’s most partaking facets, the actor mentioned: “It’s sophisticated, because it at all times is with household, and I believe that’s actually going to resonate with audiences.”
Daniella Pineda Hypes Up Anäis
“I’m In My Villain Stage Now”
Pineda started her phase of the interview by introducing her coat, which was named Fernando after the movie’s stunt coordinator to, in Pineda’s phrases, “offer you a very kick-ass battle scene.” Pineda went on to share her pleasure about enjoying Anäis: “I’m in my villain stage now in my profession, which I didn’t assume would ever occur. It’s a component that I’ve by no means gotten to play … I had my audition, and I used to be scared to demise, [but] I used to be like ‘Man, if I get this, that is going to be so enjoyable.’”
O’Connor jumped in: “[Daniella has] an intelligence about right here, and there’s additionally a mysterious high quality to her … she wasn’t letting me fully in, which I believed was actually good. And there have been different qualities that I used to be searching for that I can’t discuss proper now. [But] we spent a while collectively, we performed with the scenes … and we had some actually, I believed, vital conversations in regards to the character.”
“She’s a villain,” Pineda added, “but it surely’s undoubtedly a posh character.”
The Accountant 3 Is In The Works
O’Connor Reveals Amazon’s Pleasure About Making The Franchise A Trilogy
When requested when audiences will get The Accountant “cubed” (a play on The Accountant 2’s emblem), O’Connor mentioned the next about altering the brand for the sequel, and the potential for a threequel: “That was vital to me, and I used to be very pleased that Amazon embraced that. We had been at all times calling it The Accountant squared. [The Accountant 3] received’t take eight years.”
Addai-Robnson & Pineda Talk about Their Massive Upcoming Initiatives
From The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Energy To Dora The Explorer
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy season 3 goes into manufacturing later this 12 months, and Addai-Robinson is ready to reprise her collection position as Tar-Míriel. “I’m very excited,” the actor started, “By the point I am going again, imagine it or not, it is going to have been nearly two years since I wrapped the second season.” She went on to say, “I’m excited to return to Center-Earth. It’s an enormous shift … I don’t actually know what awaits me once I return, however I’m undoubtedly going to be pleased to see everyone.”
When Pineda was requested if she can be returning to Jurassic World this summer time, she gave an unlucky, however hopeful replace: “I’m not on this subsequent one, however who is aware of? Nonetheless, I’ll say I’m a serious character within the subsequent Dora the Explorer film, so be careful.”
The Accountant 2 premiered March 8 at Paramount Theater as a part of SXSW 2025.
