“I think the benefits of being the age I am and the job that I'm in is that I can act like a kid and I can have fun.”

Walker Scobell is acutely aware of the anticipation surrounding the second season of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians (December 10). “I’m really excited, but I’m nervous.” That’s because he’s aging faster than the character in the show based on the popular book series. “I feel like I look very different between seasons one and two...[since] like two years have passed for us in real life.” But Scobell needn’t worry, because fans are along for the ride. And Scobell was one of those fans, long before he got the pivotal role. He describes the moment he got the part “like, ‘Oh, now the weight of this is on my shoulders...’ But it’s also like, it doesn’t feel that hea

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