Being a teenager is hard enough but when you’re a demigod, things get genuinely complicated. These complications along with titanic battles are at the heart of Season 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” due to drop on Disney+ in November. The cast and showrunners spoke to Variety at Lucca Comics.
\n\nWalker Scobell, who plays Percy Jackson, has gone from curly-haired scamp to a 17-year-old who draws fevered screams from his appreciative fans. Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri, who play Percy’s best friends Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood, respectively, have also become fan favorites and close friends in real life.
\n\nAs well as growing up together since the series started four years ago, they find the atmosphere of Comic Cons like Lucca Comics a bonding experience: “I feel like Italy and Brazil are the biggest, happiest and most energetic,” Scobell says. “London is very quiet but engaged. If you can make the London crowd laugh, it’s a great feeling.” “Going from Brazil to London was crazy, the difference,” Jeffries says.
\n\nHow have they felt themselves develop as actors from the 13-16 year olds they were to begin with? Simhadri, the oldest of the three at 20, says: “I used…
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