'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' stars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri chat with THR at the Disney Upfronts and dish on how much Logan Lerman's support means to them. Plus, they share who they are most excited to see at the Upfronts event.
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00:00Tell me about your experience today, because it seems like you guys know so many casts.
00:03What's going on? We're crashing every interview, aren't we?
00:06That's great. I know. It's crazy seeing everyone that we met so long ago.
00:11There's so many famous people here.
00:13Milo, Meg.
00:14And Tiana Taylor.
00:15The first T23 I came to, I was terrified. I still am. I'm scared right now.
00:20Who are we excited to possibly run into today?
00:23Tiana Taylor, right there.
00:24Tiana Taylor.
00:25Do you know, she's right there.
00:26What would you say if you ran into Tiana Taylor?
00:29If I go to Tiana Taylor, I'm going to just start singing, wake up, love.
00:33I'm sorry, let me stop. Sorry.
00:35She's right there. We can. We can make this happen.
00:36Oh, I can't.
00:37I want to talk about your guys' show.
00:40There is such a, yeah, let's stop.
00:42I'm going to gas you guys up for a second, because you guys have such an incredible fan base around this show.
00:48What has this experience meant to you guys?
00:51It's been incredible. It's surprising.
00:54I feel like, I don't know what I expected, but I kind of thought like the week after the show,
00:58or like the month or the year, that it would just kind of like die off.
01:01But people kept recognizing me, and I was like, this is insane.
01:04And even today, like, people's, like, we were walking around, and people would be like,
01:08oh my God, it's Percy Jackson!
01:09And it's incredible that people, like, still, like, hold, like, I don't know, remembering us, you know what I mean?
01:18No, I understand.
01:19I constantly forget that I'm, like, part of it, you know what I mean?
01:23So I'll see, like, I get, like, my For You page.
01:25I mean, I'm not on, like, TikTok a ton, but, like, when I'm on it, it's just all Percy Jackson.
01:30And then occasionally I'll be watching one, like the book, and my face will pop up,
01:33and it'll, like, scare me, because I'm not used to that still, you know what I mean?
01:36Like, I'll, like, an edit of you and be like, no, that's weird.
01:40I know that guy.
01:41Yeah, no, of you only.
01:43Are you liking it incognito?
01:45Do we have kind of, like, a burner account that we're watching all these edits?
01:49Or are we, like, yeah, we comment, we interact?
01:51It's too much effort for me to make a burner account.
01:53It's too much work, to be honest.
01:57I mean, I...
01:58What are you doing?
02:03We're just having the time of our lives.
02:06I wanted to ask about any particular fan interaction that sort of stands out to you
02:11during this whole process.
02:14Oh, my God, that's Flula.
02:16Wait, I'm sorry.
02:17We're having the time of their lives right now.
02:19What, was that Flula?
02:20Who are we talking about?
02:22You see the curly hair and he's in the...
02:23That's Flula?
02:25Oh, my God, dude.
02:27I think the new show concept is that we're just going to bring every other person that's
02:31here today to this set.
02:33Okay, wait, actually, I'm going to lock in.
02:34All right, I'm ready to hear this question.
02:37Trust me, trust me.
02:38I got you.
02:39Talk to me about your most memorable fan interaction.
02:41Great.
02:42Okay, most memorable.
02:43I think when I gave this girl a hug and she, like, literally broke down, like, in my arms.
02:49Like, she was like, like, I was like, I was like, it's so nice to meet you.
02:51And I literally was feeling her, like, fall.
02:53Luckily, I wasn't in heels.
02:54So, like, I could be able to, like, actually, like, brace myself.
02:57Was the girl at the airport?
02:59Oh.
02:59Do you remember?
03:00I remember her too.
03:01Wait, and, like...
03:02There was this super sweet girl who we met at the airport, like, flying back from New York
03:06for the press tour, I think.
03:07That's what it was.
03:07Yeah, okay, yeah.
03:08Yeah.
03:08And we both said hi and she just started crying.
03:11And she was smiling.
03:11She's like, I don't know.
03:12I don't know why.
03:13I'm so sorry.
03:14And I felt...
03:14You know, you feel bad.
03:16Like, it's not...
03:17A lot of people are like, oh, like...
03:18I see people say, like, oh, I wish, like, people would cry over...
03:21No, you don't.
03:21Like, because you feel like you're making them uncomfortable.
03:23Exactly, right?
03:24And so, we just, like, kept talking to her because I wanted her to, like, feel comfortable,
03:28I guess, which probably didn't help at all.
03:30I probably should have just let her go.
03:32So, guys, see, Arjen's really good at helping people with, like, panic attacks.
03:34I don't know how to explain that.
03:35Like, every time when I'm nervous to get on, like, a stage...
03:37Like, at the D23, like, the one that we had last year, it was, like, 20,000 people.
03:42I was like, oh, my gosh, I'm so scared.
03:45Arjen was, like, actually, like, you're good, you're good.
03:47I was like, why is this actually eating?
03:49My favorite fan interaction is definitely the first time I met Arjen.
03:52He was so starstruck.
03:54And, no, I think...
03:55When Liam met me, she was just so...
03:57Well, someone that does really love you guys is Logan Lerman.
04:01He's talked about support.
04:03What has his support meant to you?
04:05I sent him a picture today.
04:06We were in Times Square.
04:07There was a picture of him going like this with sunglasses.
04:10So, I did that in front of the billboard that he was on, and we sent a picture to him.
04:13He liked it.
04:14What has his support meant to you guys?
04:17A ton.
04:17I mean, he's, like...
04:19I mean, I grew up watching, you know, like, first being a wallflower.
04:21I mean, he's been in a ton of, like, crazy stuff that, like, I don't know.
04:25He's so recognizable.
04:26Fury.
04:27Yeah.
04:27I don't know.
04:28I think he's just such a cool dude.
04:30He's so nice, and I think I definitely look up to him because, like, you know,
04:34he's, like, a very good role model, you know, because he's been doing this since he was a kid, too.
04:39You know, he was very young when he started.
04:40So, I really look up to him in that way.
04:43You know, I want to be like him when I'm, you know, an older actor.
04:46If I'm, like, even half as good as he is when he's, when I'm, like, his age, when he was, like,
04:50in person being a wallflower, then I'm, like, I'm okay.
04:53I'm fine for life.
04:55I'm good at it, yeah.