Percy Jackson and the Olympians has begun filming its second season, but its stars took a pause to appear at Disney’s D23 fan event Saturday — where they revealed a few new actors will be joining the cast.
Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries appeared on stage alongside fellow series regulars Charlie Bushnell and Dior Goodjohn and new castmember Daniel Diemer, who will play Tyson the cyclops in season two. The cast offered a brief teaser for the coming season (watch it below) — including Percy (Scobell) taking the reins of a chariot — and announced some additions to the cast.
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Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal and Margaret Cho will guest star as the Gray Sisters, who run a taxi service (also known as the Chariot of Damnation) and share one eye and one tooth between them. Bernhard will play Anger, who’s in charge of collecting fares and is impatient to get her turn using the eye. Schaal will play Tempest, who currently has the eye and uses it to watch the heroes, read their futures — and tease them about their social lives. Cho plays Wasp, the main driver of the taxi who takes the demigods on a wild ride to Camp Half-Blood.
Season two of the show is based on The Sea of Monsters, the second book in author (and series co-creator/executive producer) Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood a year after the events of season one to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth (Jeffries) is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover (Simhadri) 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 him.
Riordan executive produces season two with showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz,Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.
