Will Hades Be in ‘Percy Jackson’ Season 2? (Unique)

Jay Duplass needs to return to the Underworld!

The actor and filmmaker, 52, tells PEOPLE in an unique interview on the New York Metropolis premiere of his new FX present Dying For Intercourse that there have been conversations about him reprising his position of Hades in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Nevertheless, he confirms that he won’t be making an look in season 2.

“I’m not in season two,” Duplass says, earlier than teasing that “there have been some potential droppings about season 3.”

The Disney+ sequence has a particular place within the actor’s coronary heart as it’s one which he can share together with his household. “I like being part of the present,” he says. “It is the primary present I’ve ever been in that my children can watch. It isn’t simply that my children can watch it. Percy Jackson is actually my kids’s favourite piece of artwork ever – the e-book sequence.”

However, because the notorious quote goes, with nice energy comes nice duty. “There was a bit of little bit of stress to do proper by Hades and for the present to be nice, they usually’re so thrilled with it,” Duplass shares of his children’ response to the sequence. “It is actually been a particular reward for my entire household that I get to play that man from down underneath.”

Duplass shares two children, Mimi and Sam, together with his spouse Jennifer Tracy.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians premiered in December 2023 with Walker Scobell because the titular character, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood. The present is co-created by Rick Riordan and based mostly on his fantasy e-book sequence.

Duplass appeared within the penultimate episode of the primary season in his position because the King of the Underworld. 

An on the spot hit amongst viewers, the sequence was renewed for its second season in February 2024, per The Hollywood Reporter. The present was then renewed for a 3rd season in March 2025, forward of the second season’s December 2025 launch date, in response to Selection. Whereas the primary season was based mostly on Riordan’s first novel, The Lightning Thief, the subsequent season will observe the second e-book within the sequence, The Sea of Monsters. 

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In the meantime, Duplass has saved busy engaged on an array of different tasks, together with the newly launched sequence Dying For Intercourse, wherein he stars alongside Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate.

The present is impressed by the late Molly Kochan’s real-life journey to reclaim her sexuality after being recognized with Stage IV metastatic breast most cancers. Duplass performs Molly’s husband, reverse Williams’ Molly, whom she leaves at first of the sequence. 

On the premiere occasion, the actor shares that he joined the starry challenge for a number of causes.

“The unimaginable story, the truth that it was true, the writing, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Rob Delaney, FX. I imply, it is an unimaginable challenge,” Duplass says. “It is a very uncommon unimaginable challenge that is actually obtained one thing to supply the world. It is an unique story and it is humorous as hell.”

Dying For Intercourse is at present streaming on Hulu.