Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 Cast Adds Veep’s Timothy Simons to Guest Star

Veep and Candy star Timothy Simons has been tapped to join Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 cast for the next installment to the hit Disney+ fantasy series.

Simons will be playing a recurring guest star for the role of Tantalus, who’s being described as a “sardonic, manipulative, openly hostile, and rarely in a good mood… seeing as he is cursed with eternal hunger and thirst, but can never eat or drink,” reads Tantalus’ full character description. “Tantalus has been released from imprisonment in the Underworld to become the interim Activities Director at Camp Half-Blood, having replaced Chiron, who is under suspicion of having ties to Kronos.”

Who is in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 cast?

Percy Jackson and the Olympians currently stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Leah Sava 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 Camp Half-Blood Chronicles book titled The Sea of Monsters, Season 2 will also introduced new characters portrayed by Daniel Diemer as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest, and Sandra Bernhard as Anger.

“Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down,” reads the show’s newest logline. “His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.”

The series hails from executive producers Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, James Bobin, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, and Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, and D.J. Goldberg. It is a production by 20th Television.