I had so much fun playing this dude. — Aleks Paunovic on Instagram.
Vancouver’s own Aleks Paunovic plays blind cyclops Polyphemus, who guards the Golden Fleece in the Sea of Monsters, in the next season 2 episode of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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It took five hours a day in the makeup chair to transform Aleks Paunovic into Polyphemus, he told Entertainment Weekly
I’m putting on about 40 pounds of prosthetics for this, and the headpiece alone was about 15 pounds on top of the 40, so it was pretty extensive, but the makeup department did such a great job.
As a Vancouver-based actor, it’s not surprising that this isn’t his first time playing a cyclops in a Percy Jackson adaption. In the first movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Paunovic did a background stunt running through the forest in full cyclops prosthetics.
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Percy Jackson Season 2:
In season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Percy (Walker Scobell) returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) is changing, he learns he has a cyclops half-brother named Tyson (Daniel Diemer), Grover (Aryan Simhadri) has gone missing, and the camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him into the deadly Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece that will save Thalia’s tree, which protects the borders of the camp.
Season 2 Special Look:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2:
Episodes: 8.
Working title: Mink Golden.
BC filming dates: August 01 2024 – January 31 2025.
Creators:: Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg.
Showrunners Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Craig Silverstein.
Cast: ≈
Others: Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Toby Stephens, Lin Manuel Miranda, Adam Copeland, , Nick Boraine, Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho, Timothy Simons, Tamara Smart, Andra Day, Courtney B. Vance, Rosemarie DeWitt, Aleks Paunovic, Beatrice Kitsos, Kevin Chacon.
