Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 Cast Adds The Boys Star & More
Disney+ has unveiled the four actors who have been tapped to join the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 cast for the next installment of the hit coming-of-age fantasy series.
Joining the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 cast are Rosemarie DeWitt (The Boys) and Aleks Paunovic (Snowpiercer), who have been cast for the guest-starring roles of C.C. and the cyclops Polyphemus, respectively. Meanwhile, Beatrice Kitsos (iZombie) and Kevin Chacon (Jessica Jones) have been enlisted to respectively portray demigods Alison Simms and Chris Rodriguez in a recurring capacity.
“Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down,” reads the show’s newest logline. “His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.”
Percy Jackson and the Olympians stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, 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. Based on Rick Riordan’s second Camp Half-Blood Chronicles book titled The Sea of Monsters, Season 2 will also 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, and Tamara Smart as Thalia.
The series hails from executive producers Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, James Bobin, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, and Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, and D.J. Goldberg. It is a production by 20th Television.
(Source: THR)
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