These demigods, they develop up so quick. And it is going to be very evident when Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians lastly returns for Season 2 later this yr, says star Walter Scobell.
The long-in-production adaptation of Sea of Monsters, the second novel in writer/sequence co-creator Rick Riordan’s catalog of YA myth-hits, “begins off in a little bit of a totally different place, at least for Percy, than the ebook, simply as a result of of how a lot greater I’ve gotten,” Scobell tells TV Insider backstage on the SCAD TVfest 2025 on the Savannah School of Artwork and Design’s Atlanta campus. “And I would say he’s a little bit happier than he is in the ebook…I really feel like he’s positively modified a little bit since we final noticed him.”
Solid when he was 12 to play the son of Poseidon (Toby Stephens), Scobell is now 16, has a a lot deeper voice, and is markedly taller than he was in Season 1. “I assume the most troublesome factor about this season is balancing out how younger he is nonetheless and additionally nonetheless staying me,” he admitted shortly after receiving the TV pageant’s Rising Star Award. “It’s bizarre filming with [costars Leah Sava Jeffries, who plays Annabeth, and Aryan Simhadri, who plays Grover] now as a result of we’re nonetheless taking part in the identical characters we performed when we had been 12, and now we’re so a lot older.”
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Scobell additionally supplied some perception into the brand new season’s tone, which he says ramps up the adrenaline “mainly proper away” as he and his Olympus-powered friends return to Camp Half-Blood.
“This season has a lot extra motion than final season for positive,” he previews. “I really feel like final season was very very like, we would keep in one place and have dialog and then there’d be an motion sequence, you know what I imply? It was superior. However this season, the stakes are increased for our characters, so it virtually feels like there’s by no means a place the place we simply cease and discuss. We’re virtually at all times doing one thing, which I assume it suits this ebook completely. Tright here’s simply so a lot at stake for our characters.”
Together with potential emotional dramas?
“Walker and Annabeth, they have a little bit of an argument at the starting that sort of [lingers],” Scobell confirms. “It will get resolved at the finish, however I assume we’re taking part in into the truth that we’ve all grown and our characters have spent a lot of time aside. So it’s like we all have these new dynamics. Our relationships with every different are very totally different.”
Daniel Diemer and Walker Scobell on set of Percy Jackson Season 2 (Disney / Eric Milner)
As followers already know, Daniel Diemer has joined the solid as Tyson, the cyclops son of Poseidon and Percy’s half-brother. However there is no such thing as a sibling rivalry for the actors to fret about. “Oh my God, [Daniel] is excellent,” raves diehard Percy Jackson fan Scobell. “I was so excited the first day we did our audition collectively…he walked in and he had this necklace with a trident on it that he’s had for years earlier than this. He was additionally a massive Percy Jackson fan when he was youthful, so yeah, I can’t think about anybody else as Tyson. He simply fully owned it.”
Throughout a panel following his award presentation, Scobell informed a sold-out crowd that the brand new season options one of many wildest sequences he’s ever filmed for the present (which simply wrapped manufacturing in Vancouver). He additionally confirmed that the storyline in Season 2 required far more sensible filming places and that the behind-the-scenes crew has been key in feeding his curiosity in directing sooner or later and that his favourite installment of the Riordan library is the ultimate ebook, The Final Olympian.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 2 Premiere, 2025, Disney+