Dec. 3, 2025

PERCY JACKSON Season 2 Cast Interviews + Spoiler Free Premiere Review

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PERCY JACKSON Season 2 Cast Interviews + Spoiler Free Premiere Review

It’s time to set sail into the Sea of Monsters for Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2! We have our spoiler free review of the two-episode premiere, some things to remember about season 1 AND exclusive interviews with the cast and creator Rick Riordan!

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(00:00) - Intro

(01:22) - Season 1 Things To Remember

(04:00) - Season 2 Premiere Spoiler Free Review

(14:19) - Cast Interviews

Interviews feature: Walker Scobell (“Percy Jackson”) Leah Sava Jeffries (“Annabeth Chase”), Daniel Diemer (“Tyson”), Aryan Simhadri (“Grover Underwood”), Charlie Bushnell (“Luke Castellan”), Dior Goodjohn (“Clarisse La Rue”), Author / Co-Creator / Executive Producer Rick Riordan

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Hey everyone, welcome to a bite
of We had a very special episode

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today We got we're talking about
interviews.

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We're talking about Percy
Jackson season 2 spoiler free.

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Putting that out there, we have
a non spoiler 1 coming when the

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premiere actually drops.
But we couldn't wait to get our

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thoughts out there.
Very excited for this.

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Are you ready for another season
of Percy Jackson?

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I'm so ready.
I've never been more ready for

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something in my life.
I'm Noah and that's Derek.

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We're here to officially kick
off Percy Jackson's season 2

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season.
OK, before we get into all the

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episodes, all that amazing

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stuff.
So let's get into it.

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Heck yeah.
So let us officially take a bite

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of what we're calling before you
watch Percy Jackson and the

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Olympians Season 2.
And most importantly, OK, so

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I've said this before, Noah has
an encyclopedic memory.

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He can store files away in his
brain forever.

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Whereas I, on the other hand, no
pressure watch a beautiful

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thing, really enjoy it.
And then the details fly out of

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my head.
So we were lucky enough to get

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the first few episodes of season
2.

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And so you all aren't as
confused as I was.

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I thought it would be great to
remind you of a couple of things

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of where we left off in season 1
leading off into season 2.

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And the first thing I want to
start off with is that our trio

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have not seen each other for
almost a year.

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Summer camp Summer.
Camp.

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So it's summer camp, right?
Just like real life summer camp.

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They meet during the summer
months and then they go back to

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their regular lives.
So the things to know is that

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Percy and Sally are on their
own.

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Sally has officially dumped
Gabe, which is a wonderful

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thing, and they're living
together, doing their own thing.

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He's gone back to school.
Annabeth, on the other hand, has

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finally, you know, had a year to
be a real teenager, which I

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think is really exciting.
So she's going to go see things

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never seen, she's gonna go to
school, she's gonna ride roller

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coasters and experience life as
a kid.

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And then kind of one of the more
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that Grover has his Searchers
license, yes.

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To find pan.
Yes.

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So that is really cool.
So he is.

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Off I mean really yeah, we we
left the first season with them

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in a good in a good place, you
know, but as like a econd story

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season 2 comes.
We know that that's setting U to

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be like MMM.
Is this going to cause issues

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later on?
O Time has passed, they haven't

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seen each other for a while.
O What does that mean for them

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going into Season 2?
Next, I want to remind you that

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there is a war at play.
So yes, they left off quite

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nicely, but they went to their
normal lives realizing that Luke

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is actually sort of on the other
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He was a bit of a double agent.
That was the biggest twist at

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the very end of season 1, Luke
betrayed.

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Yeah, Luke, who we thought was
our bestie, was actually our

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frenemy, so remember that.
Another thing I want you to

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remember is that Talia is a
tree.

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Is that where we're ending that?
Pretty much I mean, there's one

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more that the gods are bad
parents because that pretty much

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plays throughout the entire
series.

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But Talia is a tree.
Now I, I want to say this

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because I remember when I was
reading the books and I read the

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lightning thief and I thought,
wow, that's a really sad story.

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Like really cool that Talia,
like, you know, sacrificed

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herself and and Zeus made her a
tree.

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So she didn't go to Hades and
was surprised that in the Sea of

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Monsters, actually it has a lot
to do with what's happening

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going forward.
So remember.

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Talia is a tree.
Talia is a tree.

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Yeah.
Is it?

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I feel like in the show didn't
wasn't there a revelation that

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it was like Thalia, right?
Am I wrong?

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Did they say Thalia?
But I noticed in the press

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interviews, which we'll get to a
little later in this episode,

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that they all call her Talia.
OK, well whatever.

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Teach their own.
You can say however you want.

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How do you pronounce Yeah?
Talia All right, so we're going

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to get into our I mean, that's
really it, right?

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I mean, there's a lot of things
that I think we just go back and

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listen to our episodes if you
want to, if you want to hear our

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full thoughts on every episode.
And we also covered the book.

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So we were really deep into like
the Percy Jackson lore of

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everything.
So we did all of that.

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But I do like this little recap
of like, you know, Luke

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betrayed.
There's demigods tree, that's

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all we need to know.
Y'all tree.

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There's a lot of nuance and
stuff obviously, but like, I

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think that's good, right?
It's like Luke betrayed and

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that's where we left.
And this, this season and from

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what we know of the second book
is all about who can you trust

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everything.
We're going to get into our

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spoiler free review thoughts of
the 1st 2 episodes of the

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premiere and then we'll talk
about the interviews that we had

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with the casting creators and
Rick Riordan.

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What did you think going into
these two episodes after the

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first season?
So one of the things that I was

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reflecting on is that I think a
lot of times when it comes to

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the second of something, right,
whether it's an artist's second

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album, ATV Show's second season,
there's always this bit of

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pressure and we want it to live
up to what the first season was.

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Sometimes they deliver and
sometimes they fail.

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But in watching these two
episodes, I really feel like

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Season 2 is delivering what we
got in Season 1 and also then

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some.
And, and I think that's what I'm

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taking away from it.
I think that there is a lot more

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exploration of who these
characters are, who they were,

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who they're becoming, and the
work that has gone into that as

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the actors.
And I think you could really see

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that playing out on screen.
Yeah, I think, you know, it's,

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it's, we all have eyes, right?
And our cast has grown up a

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little bit, which is totally
fine.

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And I think it has that effect
on the story as well.

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The books, the the show and the
cast.

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It's all the older you get, the
more intense things to get.

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And I will say, even just in
these first two episodes, while

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it still feels like Percy
Jackson, we still have that.

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Not so much the mix between like
the real world and the mythical.

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It's a little more leaning than
mythical side I feel like just

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in these first two episodes.
But it seems older and not in a

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bad way.
It's just like, OK, a year has

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passed and they've had some time
to either work through things or

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not work through things and it
just goes with growing with

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them.
And I really appreciated that.

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I will also say that like one of
the things that we kind of

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touched on in the first season
was it was kind of dark, not

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like thematically, more like
visually it was hard to see some

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things.
And I think the way it looks in

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this one is already just kind of
a little more polished.

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Absolutely, and I think that
Polish comes through with the

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visual effects, with the
practical effects, the sets as

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well.
I feel like everything along

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with the cast has grown up right
here, right And and you know

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something else about season 2 is
that season 1?

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You know, the first of anything
you have to do a lot of

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groundwork, right?
We're introducing people, we're

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telling their stories, they're
figuring out who they are.

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So now we're firmly in a lot of
these characters in who they

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are.
They know their lineage, they

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know about the world.
So where does it take us from

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there?
Well, that allows us to dive.

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Deeper into things, I mean,
you're not to like jump ahead to

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like the interviews and stuff,
but even just in these first two

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episodes, you can tell that the
cast, Rick, the producers,

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everybody was like, because this
isn't like the books.

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And we're not stuck in the POV
of Percy because that's how all

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the books are, just what Percy
sees.

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It really gives us the
opportunity to explore these

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characters in a more nuanced,
layered, complicated way that we

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didn't get before.
Be that via through flashbacks,

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which we know is going to happen
in the season.

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That's not a spoiler.
We know it's going to happen.

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But even just like in these
first two episodes, just seeing

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how some of these characters
interact when Percy isn't on the

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screen, seeing Clarice, you
know, which I think it's a big

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stand out even just in these two
episodes and going into this

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story, I I like that a lot.
You can really tell that it's

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like, cool, we're going to get
more of the thing that we really

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appreciated from the first
season.

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Absolutely.
And I, I, and another thing I

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appreciate about this that I
think carried over from Season 1

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is the ability to match the sort
of serious nature of things, but

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also the joviality of things,
right?

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These are still young
characters.

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They're still figuring things
out and there are still some

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funny things that can happen.
And I appreciate that they, they

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do a really good job of
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the action, and the quieter
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fight, all of that fantastic.
I think these like things that

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thought in my head like I don't
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chariot races, like it needed to
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they're in the Colosseum type
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like, you can really be in the
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that.
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chariot race in a summer camp
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these first two episodes, the
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these Chariots, it's into the
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episodes of the season?
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The Quest.
The quest, right?

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This is the Sea of Monsters, so
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I don't want to do that.
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and Percy Jackson, even in the
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that they're not afraid to like
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of work, you know?
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some characters, the Gray
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Tantalus, I think is going to be
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to Dionysus.
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But Tyson, I really think is the
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I agree, I agree and I think you

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know the interesting thing that
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first name mate basis.
You didn't need him that is well

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from afar.
I saw him live.

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characters that are both a ally
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and he manages to find that
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political reasons on why he's
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I'm going to be really excited
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story, or at least continue why
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I just think Dan Deemer, Daniel
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incredible.
Job like nickname basis is with

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these people.
Yo, we hang out.

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So you know what?
Let's let's get into the the

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So that's like generally our

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do want to ask like is there
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again, we haven't seen past
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seen so far, is there anything
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from the story or just what
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looking forward to?
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Again, as I said at the top of
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I enjoy it, and it happens to go
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Not to get too deep into the
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our first date was in the city
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talking about books that we had
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So I go on a motion, but I I I
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This is also, like, way too
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That is, it's kind of true, but
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looking forward to them coming
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I was like.
What are we doing?

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It always excites me when the
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looking forward to their stories
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This is a big season where

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they're kind of apart and I,
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looking forward to the most is
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characters, we have 6 main
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that, I think it's going to be
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Chris, Chris, sorry.
How dare I was like Charlie

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Bushnell, See.
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I'm just saying he's there.

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There's a boiling with Chris.
It's just amazing.

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talk about these interviews that
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and it was just really cool to
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really excited for again and to
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got to explore these characters
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just laying the groundwork.
That's a lot of work to do, and

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now they're able to actually
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talk about the care that they
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characters in the second season,
you know, for some of the

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actors, for Daniel, this was his
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he thought about that he shared,
I was, you know, you wouldn't

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obviously has two eyes, but is
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the movement of the character
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he was making.
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person that has two eyes, what
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character with one eye?
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lot of the kind of emotional
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were trying to like find a line
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work with an eye.
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conversations around it was
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push the energy so that when
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screen, you're able to kind of
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physicality with expression, but
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then make it kind of weird for
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with the actual day-to-day work
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retaining all that emotional
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things that they were really
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of.
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bringing that lovability and
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has to the screen.
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first two episodes, we could
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through.
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had asked Daniel about what was
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either Daniel or Walker, what
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immediate, like you have that
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them.
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playing like new Co stars, they
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not knowing their brothers but
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really.
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love the books, love the project
and we're really passionate

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about kind of bringing it
together in in as like special

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way as we could.
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something that really kind of
like felt like this was could be

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another home for me.
It wasn't something I've been

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having having to fight against
my Co workers try and do what I

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want to do.
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really cool really, really
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Yeah, like, like you said, I
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just there or it isn't, you
know, And I feel like it was

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just there right away and, and
we didn't have to work too hard

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to find it on screen, you know?
So that's really a fun dynamic

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to see and to see that it was
just immediate.

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first announced and you saw that

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picture of Daniel next to Walker
on those stairs, it was you

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could tell that there was some
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them.
It's like what sometimes when

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you see a casting and there's
like a little bit of a question

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mark in your mind, but when I
saw the casting, it just seemed

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to make sense and it seemed to
fit.

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Daniel talk about his work.

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personal story to the work was
Dior Goodjohn as Clarice.

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And this came from a question
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Asked I was.
I was so happy that I got to ask

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Dior this question because I
even just in the 1st 2 episodes

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and just knowing what the story
is going to be.

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I was really curious how
somebody goes about playing a

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character like Clarice that can
be a bully or an antagonist or

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main character, but also when
they have their moment and when

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a story heavily involves them.
How do they portray both sides

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of that but also vulnerability?
That's a lovely question.

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I love that that's being
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biggest challenge in that was

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having to be very honest with
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life and realizing that I am
going through the same

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experience that Clarice is going
through in the story and not

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being afraid to put that on
display and put that on camera.

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I feel like a really fun part
and big part for me about being

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an actor is the fact that you
get to shed yourself completely

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and escape into a completely
different world, be an entirely

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different person.
But when it came to Clarice's

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story this year, it was hitting
very close to home in a lot of

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aspects.
And don't get me wrong, I had an

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amazing life.
I have an amazing life.

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I had an amazing childhood, but
there definitely were some

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aspects of it and also too in my
current wool, like past tense

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current life that was happening
while we were filming the show

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that was very eerily similar.
And it was a very therapeutic

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process having to deal with what
was at hand for myself and kind

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of alchemize that and channel it
into queries.

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So not necessarily any.
I mean, of course there were big

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acting asks, like I've never
been that vulnerable emotionally

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on screen before.
And I've also, yeah, I think

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that's a good way to put it.
I've never been that vulnerable

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emotionally on the screen
before.

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So there were big asks for
acting.

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But really it was more of a self
sacrifice thing that was going

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on.
And Andrew, and you actually

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too, really like helped me get
through that.

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00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,040
And it was a very, very
beautiful experience.

398
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,560
It's a core memory.
It'll be in my life forever.

399
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,320
Like this year and this season
changed my life, but before it's

400
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,480
even come out.
And I thought that was really

401
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,360
touching thing for them to share
and that they weren't, they

402
00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,920
haven't been able to be that
vulnerable on screen before.

403
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,000
So it's nice to see that like,
oh, I'm down.

404
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,520
I'm down to do this.
Like I didn't just sign up to be

405
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,320
an antagonist or a bully.
I'm here to do the full gamut of

406
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,960
this character.
And I think there's bravery and

407
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,920
vulnerability, right?
And I think that that goes for

408
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,880
both Clarice, but also Dior as
the actor bringing Clarice to

409
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,680
life and being able to share
that part of herself both on

410
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,040
screen and in this interview, I
think is really brave.

411
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:43,360
And I'm, I'm excited to see
Clarice have multiple dimensions

412
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,840
in, in Rick's interview, he kind
of hit the nail on the head that

413
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,840
in a lot of ways on the page,
Clarice is very one-dimensional.

414
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,280
Especially in the book, I mean
you have to think like this is

415
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,560
just some Percy's POV too.
So it's just like, right?

416
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,680
How much is he going to know?
100%, and I think that that's

417
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,840
what we got as the reader.
Like, she was kind of a bully.

418
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,160
She was an antagonist.
But I think through the series,

419
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,240
through the television show,
we're getting to flesh her out a

420
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,560
lot more and give her motivation
to why she's acting the way

421
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,880
she's acting, right, Which I
think is really important.

422
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,640
Yeah.
Regarding these characters,

423
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,200
another thing that I thought was
interesting, a question was

424
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,840
asked of what's kind of like the
main differences of being in

425
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,840
Season 1 versus Season 2 and
Leah Savage, Jeffrey said.

426
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,880
Something like Season 2 is a lot
more complicated because you're

427
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,480
fighting against your own
family.

428
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,120
The difference definitely is
it's it's still the amount of

429
00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:40,760
monsters, but at the same time
it's more fights between the

430
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,720
demigods.
I feel like this season, there

431
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,160
was a lot where it was demigods
fighting against monsters.

432
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:50,200
But in the second season, the
intensity is not just intense by

433
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,080
itself, but it's also because
it's fighting against your own

434
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,800
kind.
And I think that's one of the

435
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,360
big differences of Season 1 to
Season 2 because it's like, oh,

436
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,400
these kids, they're going on a
quest to, you know, survive.

437
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,440
But now, since we find out that
Luke has left and there's a

438
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,520
bunch of other kids that have
changed as well, it's now like,

439
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,680
you know, fight against your own
family.

440
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,440
Yeah, they they really started
to like lean into the the like

441
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,520
the demigods that betrayed camp
and and that whole part of the

442
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,000
story that wasn't really talked
about too much in the second

443
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,160
book, you know?
Yeah.

444
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,280
In this season, they're older,
they look a little different.

445
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,520
She even said that she said, you
know, because her and Walker,

446
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,200
they live on opposite sides of
the country.

447
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,040
So during the hiatus they
weren't like hanging out.

448
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,440
And so she said when I saw him,
it was like, whoa.

449
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,720
But but I think that coming
together in the second season,

450
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,720
the first season was all about
building that bond.

451
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,560
Second season's a little bit
about what happens after that

452
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,120
bond is created and things are a
little rocky.

453
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,280
Well, and on on top of that,
just going off of what we know

454
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,960
from the story is that like
there's the golden trio, which

455
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,560
is Grover.
I was going to say Leah, I do

456
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,280
this all the time.
I'm always like Leah, that's

457
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,960
Leah, Annabeth and Percy is that
there was also the broken trio,

458
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,480
which is Thalia, Luke and
Annabeth and Annabeth.

459
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,920
And so having that story kind of
come back up into this and how

460
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,280
that dynamics going to work is
going to be really interesting

461
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,600
just for that conflict and the
friction between those

462
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,240
characters.
And apparently we're going to

463
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,320
get some really great flashbacks
of that trio.

464
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,960
And which is another thing that
Rick said, he was really excited

465
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,960
to see that going from the page,
which might have just been a few

466
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,160
sentences to actually fill out
scenes to build that

467
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,680
relationship.
Where we always start is I will

468
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,160
write an outline for the season
based on the book and I will

469
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,480
break it into 8 rough episodes
and I'll share that with the

470
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:49,800
showrunners and the writing
team.

471
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:54,840
And normally we stick with that
outline pretty much pretty

472
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,480
faithfully.
Now the details may change or

473
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,440
when certain things are talked
about may change, but generally

474
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,560
speaking, I've already kind of
outlined my must haves.

475
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,080
So what you see in the second
season, those are them.

476
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,400
And what surprised me most about
the changes would be some of the

477
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,720
flashback scenes.
We can dig so much deeper into

478
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,280
them, showing Thalia, for
instance, with Luke and Annabeth

479
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,080
back when they were adventuring
together.

480
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,680
Some of the most powerful
scenes.

481
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,600
They're only mentioned in the
books, but they really work

482
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,520
well.
They pop when you see them on

483
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,920
the screen.
So I'm very excited to see that

484
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,240
because I think that that is
some of the stuff that like we

485
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,920
don't we haven't gotten yet even
in the movie adaptation, right?

486
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,200
Like, there's just so many
things that we, there's so much

487
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,160
more to this story that we're
finally going to be able to get.

488
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,880
And these are the moments.
Just sharing Rick's sentiment

489
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,800
that he said the big set piece
is ironclad, the sea of

490
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,200
monsters, everything is amazing.
But the quieter moment service

491
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,560
would really stuck with him.
Yeah.

492
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,320
And that's also what I'm really
excited about.

493
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,120
Me too.
If Rick Reardon, the creator of

494
00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,840
Percy Jackson, is excited for
those things, I think that we

495
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,320
need to be excited for them as
well.

496
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,360
What an amazing thing, like 20
years ago, he had started

497
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,120
something and he's able to
continue to write and expand on

498
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,240
something.
And that's that's I would think

499
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,240
is a blessing that any author
would want.

500
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,400
And people are like loving it as
well.

501
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,480
Last thing that I will say with
this interview, and particularly

502
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,200
the question that I had was able
to ask Rick was what did he,

503
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,560
what does he hope that fans
understand about the mythology

504
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,560
of the series after Season 2 or
even during Season 2?

505
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:41,480
I think that I hope they will be
very conflicted about whose side

506
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,280
is the right side in this
conflict.

507
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:50,000
Luke is our antagonist, but he's
not wrong about some of the

508
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,360
things he's saying.
And the gods are not necessarily

509
00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,960
the best leaders or the best
parents.

510
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,680
So we should at this point be
asking ourselves, wow, if I was

511
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,920
a demigod, whose side would I
choose?

512
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,680
And if you're not sure if you
have mixed feelings, then we've

513
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,840
done our job and hopefully
you'll be really chomping at the

514
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,280
bit for Season 3.
I'm liking that that theme is

515
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,280
still being carried through
this, yeah.

516
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,920
Yeah, he he had said something
about the fact of like, although

517
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,320
Luke is is their adversary, Luke
has some good points.

518
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:32,040
I mean, those that have finished
the series, I mean, sorry if

519
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,920
it's a spoiler, but like, you
know, I mean, he did any

520
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,120
complicated care.
I think any villain or even just

521
00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:40,560
antagonist, I think that is
written well.

522
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,040
You can always see good points,
Yeah, that they're trying to

523
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,840
make.
It's really the actions and what

524
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,000
they do to try to get to those
things that.

525
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,840
Aren't good that aren't good,
Yeah.

526
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,040
Oh man, OK, I'm very excited.
I hope everybody else is

527
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,640
excited.
I mean, I was just excited to be

528
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,280
able to talk about Percy Jackson
again, talk to the cast, talk to

529
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,600
the.
It's just amazing.

530
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,000
I'm so excited.
Absolutely.

531
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,360
I'm super excited too, getting
knowing that this is going, this

532
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,120
is we're in the second book.
They're already planning and

533
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,560
filming the third book.
Yo, stuff gets so real in the

534
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,800
third one, I'm so excited.
Yeah, yeah.

535
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,160
I just think that a Percy
Jackson is a franchise that I

536
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,760
think lives in a lot of our
hearts, and the fact that it's

537
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,840
coming to life and coming to
life really in a wonderful way.

538
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,600
It's just super exciting to see.
And I can't wait to see what

539
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,160
happens the rest of the season,
I hope.

540
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,280
You guys follow along with us as
the episodes come out, as we get

541
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,520
to talk about them.
I'm very excited.

542
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,040
Let us know what you're most
excited for if we're season 2.

543
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,120
Yeah, We'll see you next time,
guys.

544
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,680
Yeah, for for a deep dive into
the 1st 2 episodes of the

545
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,280
season.
We set into you all right.

546
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,080
Bye bye.