![]() ![]() Percy Jackson is 12 years old in the TV series, just a year younger than Scobell. "It was obvious to me and the rest of the team that Walker had the perfect mix of comedic timing, sweetness, rebelliousness, snark and heroism to embody our hero Percy Jackson," he wrote. He wrote the five Percy Jackson books on which the series is based. ![]() In a blog post on April 11, author Rick Riordan sang the actor's praises. What does Rick Riordan think of the casting? Watch him prove his exceptional knowledge of Deadpool here. "Even those crappy expositional lines that no one remembers, he knows every single one of them." "He can recite every syllable of either movie, he can just go," Reynolds added. ![]() ![]() Sitting beside Ryan Reynolds in a Today interview, Scobell admitted he's seen the movie "a couple hundred" times. The film is Scobell's first big-screen acting gig, and he was selected out of 376 kids who auditioned for the role.Īside from acting credits, he's an avid skateboarder and skier and a huge Deadpool fan. The 13-year-old is known for his breakout role in well-reviewed sci-fi movie The Adam Project, which hit Netflix last month. Here's what to know about the actor, who's also skilled at sarcasm in interviews. You may recognize him from Netflix's The Adam Project, where he played a younger version of Ryan Reynolds, but did you know he's also an avid skateboarder with an encyclopedic knowledge of 2016 superhero movie Deadpool? Walker Scobell has been cast as the youthful demigod in Disney Plus' upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. ![]()
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