Percy Jackson and the Olympians star Walker Scobell has opened up about the highly-anticipated second installment of the hit Disney+ series, teasing what to expect from the upcoming Season 2 time jump. This comes after the coming-of-age fantasy show had just wrapped up production on its latest season.
What did Walker Scobell say about Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2?
During a recent interview, Scobell revealed that Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 will be a bit different from how it starts in Rick Riordan’s original 2006 novel The Sea of Monsters in order to address the cast’s growth. In addition, he also teased more action-packed sequences in the new installment, as they leveled up the stakes for each character.
“[Season 2] starts off in a little bit of a different place, at least for Percy, than the book, just because of how much bigger I’ve gotten.” He said (via TV Insider), “And I would say he’s a little bit happier than he is in the book…I feel like he’s definitely changed a little bit since we last saw him.”
Scobell continued, “This season has a lot more action than last season for sure. I feel like last season was very much like, we would stay in one place and have conversation and then there’d be an action sequence, you know what I mean? It was awesome. But this season, the stakes are higher for our characters, so it almost feels like there’s never a place where we just stop and talk. We’re almost always doing something, which I think it fits this book perfectly. There’s just so much at stake for our characters.”
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians also stars Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Glynn Turman as Chiron, and Toby Stephens as Poseidon. Season 2 will introduce new characters portrayed by Daniel Diemer as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson, Andra Day as Athena, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest, Sandra Bernhard as Anger, Timothy Simons as Tantalus, Tamara Smart as Thalia, Rosemarie DeWitt as C.C., Aleks Paunovic as Polyphemus, Beatrice Kitsos as Alison Simms and Kevin Chacon as Chris Rodriguez.
