News Percy Jackson and the Olympians Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 Actor Reveals He Secretly Appeared in the Original Films He wore lots of prosthetics in both… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 8, 2025 Credit: Disney/David Bukach Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Disney/David Bukach The second season of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians is set to premiere on December 10, and an actor in the upcoming episodes also had a spot in one of the Percy Jackson films from the 2010s. That actor is Aleks Paunovic, who is playing the villainous cyclops Polyphemus in season two. However, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he revealed that the character isn’t the first time he’s been in the Percy Jackson franchise. “What’s so funny is the producers didn’t know,” Paunovic said about his presence in the first Percy Jackson film. “I wasn’t going to say anything until the contract was done….” Paunovic’s part in the film, he said, “was more of a stunt gig than anything.” He was a cyclops then too, running through the forest. He ended up telling executive producer Dan Shotz after the paperwork was signed. “When I told Dan afterwards, he was like, ‘What?!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, man.’ He goes, ‘Well, that’s an Easter egg for people.’” Paunovic might be the only actor who appears in both the films and the television series. He also wore prosthetics for both, and for the Disney+ show he donned about forty pounds of it, which—along with his costume—took about five hours to get ready. One thing that wasn’t prosthetics for the show, however, was his single eye. “How I was acting in the TV show, that’s what they used for just the one eye. So my blinking and where my eyes were going were just transferred, and then they took both of my eyes out. So it’s actually my eye, and my eye reacting to the scene.” You can see Paunovic’s CGI-ed eye when the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres on Disney+ on December 10, 2025. [end-mark] The post <i>Percy Jackson and the Olympians</i> Season 2 Actor Reveals He Secretly Appeared in the Original Films appeared first on Reactor.