Even before “Nobody” became a surprise hit in 2021, Connie Nielsen wanted to know more about her character Becca Mansell’s life with Bob Odenkirk’s professional assassin Hutch.

With Friday’s “Nobody 2,” she gets her wish with an often comical, unremittingly violent sequel centered around the Mansells’ summer vacation.

“Actually,” Nielsen, 60, recalled in a virtual interview, “even as we were starting to do the first one there was always this sense we would be able to continue opening up this story more and more and looking forward to building out Becca’s character.

“So, I was excited when I got the script and saw that they did, in fact, do that.

“They’re starting to unpack that bigger underlying story; all of those secrets that the family was harboring in the first one.”

That doesn’t

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