Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3 Screening and Conversation with the Cast with Josh Horowitz

Walker Scobell stars as the title character “Percy Jackson” in the hit Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The first season, which premiered in 2023, introduced a new generation to the beloved franchise and quickly became one of the platform’s most celebrated original series. For his role, he won the Favorite Male Kids TV Star Award at the 2024 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Scobell will return as Percy in the highly anticipated second season, debuting in December. This fall, Scobell starred alongside Michael Douglas in the independent drama Looking Through Water, which followed three generations of a family navigating love, loss and reconciliation. In 2026, Scobell will star in the animated film The Angry Birds Movie 3.

In 2022, Scobell was featured in Variety’s prestigious Young Hollywood Impact Report, recognizing him as one of the industry’s most promising rising stars.

Scobell first gained recognition for his breakout performance opposite Ryan Reynolds in Shawn Levy’s The Adam Project. The Netflix film remains one of the streamer’s most-watched original features and earned Scobell and Reynolds an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Team. He also starred in the Paramount+ action feature Secret Headquarters, opposite Owen Wilson.

Leah Sava’ Jeffries stars as ‘Annabeth Chase’ in the hit Disney+ Original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a role that made her a breakout star and earned her an Emmy and two NAACP Image Awards. She began her career by appearing in local commercials in Detroit at the age of three. She went on to appear alongside Taraji P. Henson in FOX’s Empire and as Lil Rey Howery’s daughter, ‘Erica’, on the FOX comedy, Rel. Before transforming into ‘Annabeth Chase’ for the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Jeffries expanded into film with the Universal Pictures thriller, Beast, opposite Idris Elba, and the Amazon Original, Something from Tiffany’s from Hello Sunshine.

Aryan Simhadri plays ‘Grover’ in Disney+’s Emmy Award-winning hit series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, based on the popular Percy Jackson novels by Rick Riordan. The series quickly became a breakout success with fans worldwide.

He was also recently seen starring as Jai in Freakier Friday, the highly anticipated sequel to Disney’s iconic Freaky Friday, where he joined original stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in bringing the beloved story to a new generation.

Aryan can be seen in the Disney+ reboot of Cheaper By The Dozen alongside Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union. He also had a starring role as a lead in Disney Channel’s original movie, Spin, the first to feature a Southeast Asian cast as the leads.

His film debut was in Netflix’s WWE’s The Main Event, for which he received a Young Artist Academy Award. Additionally, Aryan performed in NYC at the famed Second Stage as a lead in Trevor: The Musical, based on a short film inspired by the non-profit organization The Trevor Project.

He was first scouted by Kids Acting School, ICT in OC, at the age of four after moving to Irvine, CA. He quickly fell in love with the art, and his talents were first recognized in a commercial for Qualcomm. From there, his talent bloomed into multiple television roles over the next few years, from ABC’s How To Live With Your Parents (For the rest of your life) to Will & Grace.

Aryan’s improv skills were finely tuned when he was cast on Disney’s Just Roll With It. He has also extended his reach into voice-over work, where you can hear him in films such as The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run. He also lent his voice to Paramount Television’s Adventures in Wonder Park as ‘Banky’ and, most recently, the role of ‘Tiffany’ in the award-winning Adventure Time series television movie Distant Lands and Disney’s Mira, The Royal Detective.

Aryan’s passion for acting and performing radiates through every project he’s a part of, and he shows no sign of slowing down.

Charlie Bushnell is an American actor of Costa Rican/Japanese/Irish descent. He is best known for his current role as ‘Luke Castellan’ on the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

At 14, he decided to try his hand at acting and landed his first role on the Disney+ series Diary of a Future President, playing ‘Bobby Cañero-Reed.’ He received widespread praise for his natural and sincere portrayal of ‘Bobby,’ a teenage boy exploring his identity.

In 2024, Bushnell voiced his first animated role as ‘Chase’ in the Zach Woods/Mike Judge series, In The Know, for Peacock.

Tamara Smart can currently be seen portraying the significant character of Thalia in Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. She is simultaneously starring in Greg Winter’s Wayfinders series and can also be seen in the TV adaptation of Resident Evil. She recently completed filming the feature Watch Dogs opposite Sophie Wilde and Tom Blythe, based on the popular Ubisoft video game franchise.

Previously, Smart appeared as the lead in the feature A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting as well as Disney’s Artemis Fowl for director Kenneth Branagh opposite Judi Dench. She is also known for her work in the series Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Hulu’s limited series Hard Sun, the series Worst Witch, and voices a lead role in animated feature Wendell & Wild opposite Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.

This will be the first series regular role of Chrisopulos’ career. A 14-year-old triple threat performer and competitive dancer, he made his national television debut on FBI, and toured nationally in Peter Pan. He is repped by Randi Rosen of Ivy Artists Management, Barry Kolker of The Carson Kolker Organization Ltd and Steve Younger of Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.

Josh Horowitz is a host for MTV and Comedy Central. He has been the face and voice of MTV News’ movies coverage since 2006, covering the Academy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, Comic-Con, and anchoring red carpet coverage around the world. He currently hosts the Comedy Central talk show, Untitled Josh Horowitz Show. Since 2014, Josh has hosted the celebrity interview podcast, Happy Sad Confused, welcoming the likes of Al Pacino, Quentin Tarantino, and Jane Fonda for in depth conversations. He lives in New York City.