Cynthia Addai-Robinson returned to one of her best known roles, as The accountant 2 Brought it back to Marybeth Medina after most of a decade. It is intriguing to see how Marybeth has changed since the first film, and yet how ready it is to return to the trenches with Christian Wolff. But how was Addai-Robinson to revisit her character after such a long break?
In an interview with CBR, the actor spoke of returning to the world of The accountant And how it is compared to her work as a queen miriel in prime video’s The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power. She discussed Marybeth’s story of the story and why the character is so significant to her. In addition, what would she like to see in The accountant 3?
CBR: You finally come back to The accountantBut in the meantime, you played as a Queen Miriel Power ringsWhich could not be a more different project. Have you had transition time between the two?
Cynthia Addai-Robinson: Fortunately, the execution time on the rings – we have this kind of gaps because they make their post -production magic. I would have started filming on the accountant almost a year ago. I think we started last March, if I remember correctly. So it was in a way in the hiatus period, and it was a perfect timing, because I never really knew when they were going to go later.
Obviously, it took us about eight years, in the end, and I was not necessarily aware of these conversations because they pushed it. Regarding timing, this could not have been more perfect in terms of rupture of the rings, having enough distance to lose my skin as Tolkien, then back up in Marybeth Medina.
She grew up over time between films, but you are not the same actor as you were on the first film either. So how did you approach it the second time, with the additional advantage of your additional experience?
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I really feel the feeling of my own growth, both as an actor and as a person. You are looking at a period of eight years, especially the past eight years that this world has seen, and in a way … You cannot help but have your own growth on you, in a sense.
What is great is that in the script itself – Bill Dubuque, who wrote the first accounting film, also wrote the second. He, Gavin O’Connor, our director, Ben Affleck – they would have all developed and designed what a sequel would look like. And so many things are also on the page. He is a character so well written and well designed as a starting point.
Between what they have established, then my own conversations with Gavin, I think she is trying to present a character who is in many respects. It is now in a kind of big boss position. But there is also, like everyone else, a feeling of impostor syndrome. A meaning would I have reached this position, without these tips and these telephone calls that I get as Ray King in the first film? It was just a nice parallel of Mary Beth evolved, I evolved and we meet in a way at the same point.
Was it important for you to fill the whites with his life between the two films? Regardless of what happened on the screen, did that help you fill this gap?
Absolutely … it does not necessarily appear on the screen, but it informs how a person moves to the world [and] The decisions they make in a story. With Marybeth and Christian Wolff, he is a bit like this mythical being. In the first film, she continues him. She discovers who he is, but she never meets him. And so it is interesting to consider what it would look like in all these years so that it gets these advice, to resolve these big cases, with this knowledge that itself itself.
I always thought that it was an interesting idea – what it is to hold a secret that is so big and to direct so much about your life and your career that it makes it difficult to share, really, with anyone. It is difficult to open up with anyone, because it is such a monumental thing on which it must sit. I like the idea that, as a result of that, it maintains it as a little lonely, which, I think, is very revealing and interesting, because I think that for all the characters, it is. I think it’s true for Marybeth, it’s true for Christian, it’s true for Brax, it’s true for Anais. They are all solitary. It is all these lonely wolves that carry these charges that make connection with people in the larger world very difficult. So I love that all these characters were sailing in their own way.
Much of your work in the first film was with JK Simmons, who played Ray King. The accountant 2 Shocks fans by killing King. How was it for you, to lose the stage partner you had of the first film?
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JK was at the first, so I was able to catch him there … I laughed because I thought Wow, the last time I saw you, you were lying on a slab. It was a strange day of shooting, while in the first film, this dynamic was really the script, certainly for myself.
To be worked with him and be such a massive fan – he was literally winning his Oscar for the cervical boost when we filmed the first film, and it was intimidating, but it was inspiring. This dynamic of this mentorship that I liked, and I think a lot of people really liked to watch in the first film.
So, for her to lose a mentor – someone with whom she fell disconnected – and the shock of this, I think it is the engine of the reason why she really has to see this until the end in her name. The fact that she is her emergency contact and that he always trusts her. He knows that she and the accountant will be those who will be able to resolve this case. I think it’s like this burden of responsibility.
But I cannot say enough good things about JK, and I certainly hope that we are going to work on something in the future where we get a little more time than the time of the morgue.
It has already been published publicly that Gavin O’Connor would like to do The accountant 3. If that happens, do you have any ideas about what you would like to see for Marybeth, depending on where she goes to this film?
I didn’t think about it. I think I am always delighted to see how people receive the rest … What I think is charming is just to get the reaction of people, especially if they loved the first, because the second is really a tonal change since the first film. So, at the beginning, you want to hope that you satisfy the expectations of fans and that they do not necessarily know what they are going to get from Marybeth Medina, how she will take things into account.
I hope and I would like to make it the trilogy it deserves to be. And the Marybeth that we see at the beginning of accountant 2 is not the same Marybeth at the end – that you hope for any arch of character, that there is a fundamental change in a person. She is definitely a different woman at the end. I would love to see once she had her own “AHA” moment, if you want, how it moves her world vision in the future. Because at the end of the day, she is finally someone who really wants to see justice serve, put away the bad guys, and this can happen in several ways. So maybe she has a larger vision of that, and I would be curious to see how it translates into a third film.
You have played a varied quantity of characters in your career, The accountant has Chicago Med has Power rings. What do you want to see on the horizon for you personally?
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My last thing that really fascinates me is to be my own creator. Myself, my husband, we certainly have aspirations to carry out projects that fascinate us. I work with Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal and people that I admire not only as an actor, but just like the general creatives.
And I think that nowadays, when you are an actor, you must almost be a multi-hyphenate, especially if you are passionate about narration. How do you get more stories there? And so that’s sort of what I work on. There are so many stories to tell and do, and I want to be a champion. I want to be involved in the ground level. So I’m really excited and motivated by that.
And as I said, I’m just trying to learn from those around me. I had the pleasure and the privilege of working with some of the best – including our director, Gavin O’Connor, on whom I cannot say enough incredible things. Even when they don’t realize that they were mentoring me, they teach me. I learn from them and I want to follow their traces very much.
The accountant 2 is in theaters now.
The accountant 2
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April 25, 2025
- Execution time
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124 minutes
- Director
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Gavin O’Connor
- Writers
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Bill Dubuque
- Producers
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Ben Affleck, Kevin Halloran, Matt Damon, Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell Taylor, Scott Lastaiti, Michael Joe, Mark Williams, Alison Winter
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Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Marybeth Medina
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