Disney+ has announced that Resident Evil star Tamara Smart will join the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians as the beloved character Thalia Grace. The character of Thalia Grace is depicted as the daughter of the sky god Zeus (played by the late Lance Reddick in Season 1). Smart will appear as a recurring guest star in Season 2 alongside series regulars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn and Daniel Diemer. What Rick Riordan says about the Thalia Grace casting “Thalia Grace is one of the most important characters in the Percy Jackson universe, so the right casting was critical. Thalia is a powerful warrior, a fiercely loyal friend, and a demigod rebel with a very ‘punk’ / ‘rage-against-the-machine’ sensibility,” said book author and series co-creator Rick Riordan in a statement. “As soon as we saw Tamara Smart play this role, we knew we had found our daughter of Zeus. She was, no pun intended, electric. Tamara puts the...
