'Percy Jackson & the Olympians' Stars Dish On Preparing For Action Scenes For Season 2, Their Favorite Memories & Preparing For Action Scenes (Exclusive)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is already halfway through the season!
The Disney+ series adaptation of Rick Riordan‘s popular books debuted it’s second season earlier this month, and we had a chance to catch up with the show’s young stars to talk about the new episodes.
We spoke to stars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn and Daniel Diemer, and got the scoop on what it was like preparing to film this season’s action sequences, their favorite memories from filming, the biggest challenges they faced this time around and what they are most looking forward to fans seeing!
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“A lot of stunt training and a month of prep,” Walker shared about preparing for all the action sequences. “We would go in and train with the stunts team, and our stunts team is awesome. And we all have all of our doubles, who are just, I don’t know. Just insane. They’re so good at their jobs.”
Dior chimed in, “They pick up on our details, like how we walk and our character details, like how would they do this. They’re really detailed about it.”
“It’s hard to tell,” Walker continued. “I don’t know. For season two specifically, Percy’s still pretty clumsy so I felt bad for my stunt double because he’s an insane gymnast, he’s not clumsy, he’s the opposite of that. So, watching him try to be clumsy, I just felt bad because it was the only time where I’ve ever had the edge over him on anything physical, was when I had to fumble something.”
As for what fans can look forward to the most, Charlie shares every episode has a “main event going on.”
“There’s something going on every… at any moment in this season. It just never stops,” he said.
On their favorite memories from filming, Leah sweetly said for her, it was just “being with my people again” while Aryan backed her up, saying, “Reuniting with the cast. It’s hard being away, for Grover and for Aryan.”
Check out our full interview in the video right here, and be sure to tune in for season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+ and Hulu. Find out when each episodes drops here!
Interviews conducted by JJ Editor AJ Pitts.