The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians have added Timothy Simons (Veep) to the cast as a new member of Camp Half-Blood’s staff.
Simons will play Tantalus, “a sardonic, manipulative, openly hostile, and rarely in a good mood… seeing as he is cursed with eternal hunger and thirst, but can never eat or drink. Tantalus has been released from imprisonment in the Underworld to become the interim Activities Director at Camp Half-Blood, having replaced Chiron, who is under suspicion of having ties to Kronos.”
Simons is the latest addition to the new season, which is currently in production in British Columbia. Other newcomers include Daniel Diemer as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest and Sandra Bernhard as Anger.
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The show is based on author Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel series with the second season adapting The Sea of Monsters. It will see Percy embark on a quest by travelling through the infamous Sea of Monsters for a mythical item that is the only thing that can save Camp Half-Blood from a new threat.
Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. 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.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 will come to Disney+ in 2025.
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