Vice President and Candy Star Timothy Simons was invited to join Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 cast for next installment of hit Disney+ Fantasy series.
Simons will be a recurring guest star as Tantalus, who is described as “sardonic, manipulative, openly hostile, and rarely in a good mood… as he is cursed with eternal hunger and thirst, but can never eat or drink,” according to Tantalus' full character description. “Tantalus has been released from his imprisonment in the Underworld to become the temporary activities director at Camp Half-Blood, replacing Chiron, who is suspected of having ties to Kronos.”
Who is in the cast of Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2?
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The series currently stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Arian Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Leah Sawa 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 book in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles series, The Sea of Monsters, season 2 will also introduce new characters played by Daniel Deamer as Percy's half-brother Tyson, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest, and Sandra Bernhard as Wrath.
“Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood a year later to find his world turned upside down,” reads the show’s newest logline. “His friendship with Annabeth is upended, he learns he has a Cyclops brother, Grover is missing, and the camp is under siege by the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right takes him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret destiny awaits the son of Poseidon.”
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The series is created by executive producers Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg, Dan Schotz, Rebecca Riordan, James Bobin, Burt Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and DJ Goldberg of Gotham Group. It is produced by 20th Television.
Source: Diversity