RACHEL MC ADAMS

The Notebook star, 39, tickles our funny bones in Game Night (Feb. 23). The Oscarnominated McAdams teams with Jason Bateman in the grown-up comedy about friends whose regular meet-up for fun and games takes a turn for crazy when one of them is “kidnapped” and real-life thugs and fake federal agents intermingle in a rollicking murder mystery.

Who do you play in Game Night? My character [Annie] and Jason’s are a married couple used to playing charades and Pictionary at home with a cheese tray, some wine and a couple of friends. Then his brother, played by Kyle Chandler, who takes everything to the max, comes to town. He organizes this murder-mystery game night, saying it’s going to be a night we’ll never forget.

Are you competitive? It’s hard not to have some level of competition when you’re playing games. My parents would buy us a game every Christmas or in the summer, so we always had a new game to try. It was a great way for us to bond as a family. As an adult, I got away from it, but we got back into it a couple of years ago.

So many people remember you from The Notebook, but you were also in Mean Girls, two Sherlock Holmes films,

Spotlight and TV’s True Detective. To be remembered for any role would be extraordinary, a compliment, you know? We consume things at such a rate now that if anything has any staying power, I feel very fortunate. To be able to touch people is part of the reason why I got into this.