'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' Cast on Staying True to the Books
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, co-creator Jon Steinberg, and executive producer Dan Shotz sat down with RT correspondent Perri Nemiroff to discuss their upcoming show, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’. The cast and creatives detail what specific elements from the book they are bringing to the show, what unique spin they gave their characters, what the audition process was like, and so much more. Watch ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ on Disney+ December 20!
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00:00 Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri
08:50 Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz
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I love how walker will joke on leah about anything else in the world, but not about her being perfect for annabeth. he doesn’t play about her! these three are gonna be unstoppable together 🥹
yes!! theyre so playful with each other but walker never jokes about her being perfect for annabeth!
definition of percabeth !
The way Walker and Aryan were just at each other’s throats this entire interview is killing me 😂
helpp ikrr it was so funny
leah getting flustered when walker said their chemistry was automatic is everything. they are so perfect for percabeth and it really showed in all of the dialogue they shared in the second episode.
“I knew she was gonna be Annabeth” so Percy coded
her “thank you🙏” you killed me
Percabeth is a crazy name🤣 got them sounding like a narcotic
YESSS
@@ahmedally7102LMAOOO that’s their name tho 😞😞
walker and aryan's friendship is honestly too funny and I love the trio's chemistry and dynamics a lot
How is Leah always impeccably dressed? She always looks so beautiful
Rightt
The interviewer is asking very deep, logical and good questions... But what amazes me the most is that these small 13-14 year olds are answering those in equally honest and mature manner ✨👑
well aryan is 17!
Leah's 14, Walker's 15 and Aryan is 17. Leah's the youngest of the main cast. You can have that much maturity at 14 years old.
@@enhypen4ever_123 well it's not common....
@@fallenangel1412 I mean depends where you live and the people you're around, but I'd say it's common with the people I'm around. But obviously Leah is still amazing for her answers and she's such a great girl and me saying it's possible to have that much maturity at 14 isn't discrediting her in anyway.
Not Leah casually spoiling kinda the main plot of the first book 😭
well its a book adaptation.. most people who watch the show have read it, and if you havent... what the hells wrong with you? :)
There’s been 2 movies and the books have been out for years. So it’s not really spoiling😭😭
The book has been out for almost 20 years 😅😅
The book’s been out for 20 + years, the movie’s been out for 10 + years and the musical’s been out for nearly 10. If you haven’t seen any of these that’s a you problem.
LEAH JUST TOLD US ABOUT A SCENE THAT IS ON A BOOK AND NOT ON ANY TRAILER IM FREAKING OUT
The Luke betraying scene?
@@MunroMcLarenyes, they do not fight in the books
@@fefefefefer No. She’s talking about how Luke betrays Percy at the end. She’ll be there invisible with her hat unlike in the books. And then she’ll yell at him about his deception. Luke being nice to Percy was an example of that duplicity.
But was she there on the book? I freaked out when Leah was saying that because I don't remember it happening on the book@@MunroMcLaren
@@pyploveforevershe wasn’t, Percy and Luke are alone in the woods, Luke conjures the scorpion (idk the name of the creature in English, sorry) and leaves Percy to fight it alone. Percy manages to kill it, but not before getting stung, so the nymphs help him get to camp where he’s brought to the medic bay, already passed out. When he wakes up, he tells what happened to Annie and Chiron
watching this intervieww after watching the firsts two episodes OMG I CANNOT BELIEVED. they did understand their characters and they CLEARLY pass that!!! they showed exactly everything
I don’t like what they did with Grover he snitched on Percy to get him out of school and didn’t tell him at first that sally was alive
@@Sinix946 Yeah i didnt like that they made him be a narc but whatever he did it to get him out of school so i kinda understand
@@Sinix946none of those things were with bad intentions nor his choice.
Their humor is going to throw someone off one day and Leah is gonna have to cover their asses istg😭✋🏾
is this the only franchise where ALL three leads have curly hair? how has it taken so long for this brilliance?
also luke and clarissa
why have i not connected those dots- i love this
THE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BANTER WITH ARYAN AND WALKER HAS ME DEADD I CANT 😭😭😭
when Leah said about the insight that the director chose them not the random people from internet was amazing
Leah, if you ever read this, what Uncle Rick said is true. You were chosen to be Annabeth. You are the perfect Annabeth. No matter what anyone else may say, they cannot and will not change that fact.
I love how Leah calls him Mr Rick
Walker & Aryan's friendship & chemistry is absolutely amazing 🛐 (THEY SO FUNNY SKSS)
also,that Leah & Walker moment was so Percy Coded,the three of them are amazing 🫶
With as much as Walker plays around and makes fun of Leah, he never jokes about her performance and always defends her performance even to her. They have such an adorable friendship.
The scene where Percy trips was unscripted?? That was one of my favorite parts. Props to them
Which timestamp is that
@@nicoleterego
Leah talking about playing Annabeth. It starts at 3:27
I loved that part too.
no i think walker was joking about that. cracking a joke on himself
Disney better start churning out these seasons fast cause the boys seem to be growing up real quick geez
I feel like Leah is the Tom Holland of this franchise.. She's dropping things for the final episodes! I still love her though
5:05 I love that Rick said that cause I have seen people say so many thing and I feel like that would be so hard if you’re Leah and you loved the character and then you just get so much hate for it
I love how Leah and Aryan are all dressed up and Walker is wearing his iconic outfit😂❤
There is no better casting for these three. They don't just fit their parts, they identify with them and that's amazing to see on screen
oh i adore them so much, loved the first two episodes, can’t wait for next week
Wait is there gonna be new episodes next week?
@@3rineee of course 😭 they’re 8 episodes in total, but starting next week we only get one episode a week
@@yoonbaby8759 ik there is gonna be 8 episodes, just that I thought they were gonna release the others episodes in like a month or smth, but thanks for telling me!!
@@3rineee oh no i couldn’t be able to wait a whole month for a new episode ksjsj you’re welcome btw
Just 8? But aren't episode named after chapters? If it goes serially, it'd take more than one season, wouldn't it? To finish 1 book?
I got new found respect for Rick for telling them that positive or negative feedback remember that I chose you for the roles, I got my heartstrings
I love the sarcasm between them all 😭
I hope this series does well and gets renewed. It has been maybe 8-10 years since I read the books so I don't remember all the details too well. But this was a very special series for me. This show makes me nostalgic. I want them to adapt all of the percy jackson books and then maybe heroes of Olympus. Hope Percy Jackson is popular enough.
Am I the only one who loves how Leah and Aryan have amazing outfits and Walker is in jeans and a flannel but it works so well? And it would be amazing if Walker and Aryan had a real empathy link!
Literally in love with this whole cast 😭💕
these young actors have so much insight into their characters and the writing in both the books and the show. as a long time fan of the percy jackson universe i am so proud to have these kids bring the characters to life. i can’t wait to see more of their work.
Leah straight up spoiling the last episode LMFAO
These three are most certainly connected to their characters, the first two episodes exceeded my expectations, the casting is perfect. Can't wait for the next episode!
Leah smiling at all the compliments that Walker gives her is so cute🫶🏼
im so glad thee main three have such great chemistry. we haven't seen much of their scenes together yet, but im super exited to see where they head with their characters, both on and off-screen.
Honestly that one response to the question, “what’s the roadmap?” Shows why these guys are the right people to make this show. Just the simple response, we already have a roadmap-Rick wrote it.
Love the interviewer! She had amazing questions and an energy that felt like a true fan excited for the series!!
yes she did great!
Oh my gosh I am so happy and relieved to see that they've found their stride in this press junket. It seems like they've really started to feel confident as the embodiment of these iconic roles (and I hope they know how much we love and support them). It's really nice to see them less nervous and more free flowing in these interviews.
Walker and Aryan are HILARIOUS 😂 I was dying in the first interview when Walker was joking around with Aryan love these three😍☺️😆
they picked all the rolls so well, but aryan was PERFECT for grover
No one knows how excited I am for this series
it’s already out
@@fruitycola5090 I know, I’m excited for the whole series :)
"but hes 24, and acts like a 12yr old" HELP I ADORE WALKER
Watching the interview and reading some comments which I totally agree! Aryan and Walker, and Walker and Leah! I'll be waiting Leah and Aryan content in the future episodes! These kids are amazing! How do we have such amazing actors to portrait the main three kids? 😍 My heart is melting and I never thought this would happen and it is happening!
7:20 leah spoiling the whole final scene I MEAN GIRL-
I love them so much, they are AMAZING in the show!
Thank you, Perri, for one of the best, most substantive Percy interviews! Love this bunch!
a change that i would absolutely love to happen is to have Grover alongside the seven. Aryan would be soooo wasted as a side character if they ever go for a Heroes of Olympus series
It would break my heart to see Aryan not in a HoO adaptation bc it's his favorite 😂 but I really like coach Hedge too
Leah really out here spoiling the ending of the book... this is like the opposite of a Marvel situation. Like I know the books have been out for a while, but I'm glad these kids are allowed to say their minds and aren't under lock and key haha
This is so good omg! The cast is absolutely amazing
Não tem como não amar esse trio ❤
Wow i'm so happy to hear that this is everyone's passion project
NOT HIM SAYING ARYAN NEEVR PROVED HISMEFL HELP?
These are some great questions. Great job Perri!
Enjoyed the series so far. Good to hear from the main cast and production team. Glad they got the cast and story right. Have started reading the first book.
I'm so in love with this cast! 😍
the questions were pretty great :)
the book dedication :’)
Can you tell me a out that? Was it dedicated to them?
Great questions in this one!
hello from the future. it was great 😭
I am obsessed
theyre so cute ❤
meus deuses vendo a explicação de4les de como tornaram esses personagens algo deles também, eu vi tanto isso, dá pra ver a interpretação perfeita deles transmitindo exatamente isso PERFEIÇÃO
I just caught a glimpse of Mr. Riddick. My heart is broken all over again.
Loved the books as a kid and I remember being so dissapointed when seeing sea of monsters in theaters. It was awful. They introduced and killed off the main villain in the same movie and long before he was supposed to appear. They probably knew that garbage would be cancelled, so they wanted an ending, lol. I was also really upset when they went to "Circe's island" at the end because I thought that they'd actually show those scenes, but it was just a meaningless reference. I liked that part of the books and was sad that they cut it. There was also some monster fight at a donut shop that they cut but I don't exactly remember.
Love this interview, finally some acting related good question 😂
I hope if they get all the way to Blood of Olympus they to take some more creative liberties to creating a more unique story
I need more episodes
4:25 Wait did she- did Leah say that when Percy and Luke were fighting she was there but they couldn’t see her and then when she took her hat off she was like how dare you betray us like this? LIKE DID SHE SAY THAT
i love how walker just has the comfiest chair lol
These three are set to be some major stars. I hope they don't have to go through the traumatic parts!
Oh my gosh, I couldn't even let that cross my mind. I wish them a successful, HEALTHY journey. I'd love to continue to see them on screen
Dan hennah is on this!?! Did i hear that right? If i did we are in good hands!! He worked on peter jackson’s the lord of the rings and the hobbit!!
Yeah she's the set designer I think. I kept hearing her name in their interviews.
11:59 THANK YOU! You, sir, have succeeded where 20th Century Fox failed. (I know you can't say it, but I can.) Because honestly, after that entire fiasco, I don't know if I would have watched ANY Percy Jackson adaptation unless I learned about it straight from Uncle Rick.
How the hell they got so big that quick
Leah,walker y aryan los mejores carajo 🎉
not leah spoiling the ending 💀 sweetie ik you're obsessed with the pjo world but there are people watching who havnt read the books (lol i love her tho)
Love this! The show was so good!! 💙 And if you just can't get enough Percy Jackson, be sure to check out our FANMADE ADAPTATION in the meantime to hold you over before Wednesday!! 🔱
Bro they are the trio , they act like them fr
Walker roasting aryan lol😂
🌊🦉🐐💙
1:09
3:37
6:13
8:09
Giving SMH/FFH/NWH vibes 🥰
🔱💙
They’ve already kind of cut the books a bit. In the books Annabeth is more apparent in the first 150 pages, and she’s actually out of her depth in regards to her quest and Percy’s truth. She is actually caught up in the bathroom, and isn’t responsible for him getting in the water. Luke is also more apparent, spends time training Percy, where it’s foreshadowed his true nature and Annabeth’s huge crush on him. But overall it’s fairly faithful.
super honest XD
Leah Holland 😂
why do they look 3 years older now lol ? how long ago did they film percy jackson, when they were in grade school ?????
They are indeed around 3 years older 😅
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What’s going on with Walker and Aryan- 💀💀
how walker is just rosting aryan
Only thing I’m not loving rn is how they have Grover’s character acting. He just doesn’t seem like book Grover
Give it time, it'll redeem it'self same way Loki S2 did😊
and what do you mean by that
@@jimbo9208 first four eps of Loki S2 were lacking, last eps were AMAZING
no need! the first 2 eps showed that series will be stellar 🩵
@@symbionicrex10nahh, the first two episodes were amazing. Everything either true to the book or improved upon, camp looking stellar, good cgi, fluid pacing. Plus that Minotaur scene was awesome, I can’t get it out of my head
@@TheIndianDeityI agree on everything except the pacing. That was terrible. The first episode should have been at least 1 hour, weird changes to the story. 2nd episode did not even show his fight with Luke that established him as weak but having good fighter instincts. He doesn't fall in the water to get powers to defeat Clarisse. How? Percy was not exactly strong enough to lift the sword if you remember. The water gave him power. Skipped over everything, still the pacing was terrible.
The actors are good. But the story changes are worrying me. The fury attack scene was underwhelming. His relationship with his mother was not developed enough. So her death held no value. Gabe was just annoying and not the devil spawn he was in the books. Like Sally has good enough control over him, how is that abusive? I have so much more to say but I don't want to. I just want it to get better 😭
The favoritism between Leah, Walker, and Ayran is so funny🫶🏼😭
This show is so sub par but I like the cast.
there's literally 2 episodes
@@nessa7356 doesn't change anything. A show with any kind of promise in this day and age must deliver WITHIN two episodes. It didn't so it's sub par.
@@therealmcdcm personally i think it did lmao, but that's honestly not true there's tons of shows that have a slow exposition but turn out amazing. for percy jackson it's especially hard to have the worlds best first 2 episodes because of how much world building needs to be done first. also, you're not the target audience for this show, middle schoolers are.
@@nessa7356 If it's Disney it's for all ages, bud. And yes, the perfect first two episodes is something that can be achieved if the writers do it smartly.
@@nessa7356 but seriously the fuhaaz you tryin to pull with this "target audience" bullsh!+??🤨🤨
They're kidding, right?
Does any of them knows how to read?
what's your problem lmao? the fact that rick riordan (the author of the book) casted every character based off of how well they portrayed the character and not their physical appearance?
@@nessa7356 The apparently Mr Rick Riordran is better writer than a casting director.
Fictional characters do not belong to the writers to alter. Especially a ridiculous alteration like this, okay?
@@markarmage3776 Write your own books instead of crying about what someone else chose to do with their series
@@kordei-7839 That's not his series, pal. The fictional characters evolve beyond the intention of the writers.
Any work that has a huge impact automatically becomes the cultural property of society.
Better catch up.
@@markarmage3776 It is his series he created the characters. Make your own book series instead of being possessive over something someone else wrote.
Sounds like walkers balls dropped while he was filming season 1 lol
Thats so weird to say hes 14...
They all definitely grew up a lot just in the time between filming and right now. @kaelyntwist9191
@@kaelyntwist9191 which is just in that age range when boys go through puberty and their voices suddenly change and they grow 7 inches in the space of a month. Nothing weird about it, unless you make it weird. Perv lol
@@keithss67I’m sorry but you’re the one who mentioned his balls
This cast is perfect , but they rlly don’t have their chemistry or jokes shown on screen in the show , the script is pretty wooden. We barely even see walker scobells humour which is why he was chosen
Annabeth not being a blonde white girl with stormy gray eyes doesnt feel like "staying true to the books" to me
Rick chose her for a reason didnt he?
percy is supposed to have straight black hair. he's supposed to be shorter than annabeth. aryan is supposed to have red hair. i wonder why you only choose to hate on leah. can't think of a single reason lmao
@@karlanieto4421 Yeah, so he wouldn't be blacklisted by Hollywood. They did the same thing to Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and Peter Pan. Don't play dumb.
@@nessa7356 Probably because they race swapped a character. That's a bigger deal than "not the right hair color." You democrats are something special.
@@jamesanthony3195 no do your research first. He said publicly that he chose her for her skills. Not only did that go for her but for the whole cast.
I think its pretty bad. Couldnt finish the second episode.
Nah it was pretty good
I dont know what you expected it to be, but it’s really a good adaptation for the series
@@j-7005 Something else I guess....
Percy ( Walker Scobell )is very Rude that what I think
why??
That's the worst beginning of a series ever.
and what wrong with it
It’s literally the same as the books
Compared to the rings of power and witcher of how they are true to the books, this is freaking Godfather!
Bruh it’s literally the same as the book. Go be miserable somewhere else 🙄
“Same as the books” yet they race swapped a character for no apparent reason Annabeth in the books literally wanted to prove herself because people looked at her as a dumb blonde
He jokes but that kid sucks at acting