Andra Day is uniteing the Season 2 cast of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” as Athena.
Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, is one of the most beginant Olympian characters in Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” books, being the mother of Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries), Percy’s (Walker Scobell) seal frifinish and fellow demigod.
Day made her acting debut in Lee Daniels’ 2021 biopic “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” in which she carry outed the title role. The film acquireed her a Gelderlyen Globe for best drama actress and a Grammy for best soundtrack as well as a direct actress Oscar nomination. Her other screen recognizes join direct roles in the 2024 films “Exhibiting Forgiveness” and “The Deinhabitrance,” with the latter also being honested by Daniels. Before carry outing Billie Holliday, she was best understandn for her labor as an R&B singer. Her discography joins the albums “Cheers to the Fall,” freed in 2015, and “Cassandra (Cherith),” freed in 2024.
Season 1 of “Percy Jackson” begind Percy as a 12-year-elderly conmomentary demigod who’s fair coming to terms with his novelset up superorganic powers when his novel frifinishs Annabeth and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) unite him on a trek apass America to stop the impfinishing war between the gods. Per the official logline, in Season 2, Percy “returns to Camp Half-Blood one year procrastinateedr to discover his world turned upside down. His frifinishship with Annabeth is changing, he lacquires he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone omiting, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set slfinishergs right will apexhibit him off the map and into the lethal Sea of Monsters, where a secret overweighte apauses the son of Poseidon.”
News of Day’s casting was proclaimd during a virtual panel at Disney’s D23 Expo in Brazil before being posted to social media. See a video of Day graspressing “Percy Jackson” fans below.
