Percy Jackson Season 2 Casts Grammy Winner as Athena, Releases First Photo
As production continues on Season 2, Disney has officially announced the casting of Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday) in the next installment of the hit Disney+ series. This marks the acclaimed actress’ first major TV project, after previously appearing as herself in an episode of Bel-Air.
Day has signed on to portray the role of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom who’s known as Annabeth Chase’s mother. In addition, Disney has also shared a new Season 2 photo featuring a first look at the mother-daughter duo of Day’s Athena and Leah Sava Jeffries’ Annabeth.
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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 introduced new characters portrayed by Daniel Diemer as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest, Sandra Bernhard as Anger, Timothy Simons as Tantalus, and Tamara Smart as Thalia.
“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.”
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.
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