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“If I’m working with a director who wants to be touchy-feely or whatever, that’s fine,” said Ms. Kendrick, who since March has promoted six films while amusing her nearly 5.8 million Twitter followers.

In “The Accountant,” opening Friday, Oct. 14, she plays a financial type at a robotics corporation who spots a discrepancy requiring the expertise of an enigmatic mathematics savant, played by Ben Affleck.

In a recent interview from Los Angeles, w she was scrambling to catch a flight to London, Ms. Kendrick, 31, pondered her very busy year, including DreamWorks’ “Trolls” and a memoir, “Scrappy Little Nobody,” both out next month.

In “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” you played a crazy party gal opposite your BFF Aubrey Plaza.

I do think that I play buttoned-up characters more than it makes sense in my brain.

Like, it’s a surprise that people keep asking me to play professional women, because I’m like, are you looking at the same person? This person is the person you want to play really professional and driven? I’m falling apart.