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Have you caught the two-episode debut of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Season 2? It’s new on streaming this week, and it boasts tons of even bigger set pieces than its debut two years ago. One of those scenes that proves this is found in Episode 2, where Camp Half Blood competes in a cutthroat chariot race in order to get a chance at a quest. CinemaBlend spoke to the cast about bringing the exciting action scene to life.

In “Demon Pigeons Attack,” Percy (Walker Scobell) and one of the new characters this season, Percy’s half-brother Tyson (Daniel Diemer), compete against other demigods, including Annabeth and Clarisse. Here’s what Diemer said about filming the sequence in our interview.
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00:00There was a massive mechanical rig that was pulling us around at as safe as
00:05speed as they could, but still going fast, and again, there was parts where when...
00:10He's getting dragged behind.
00:11I mean, it was really impressive work.
00:14He's having to fall off.
00:15And obviously, he's chained in.
00:17I mean, you take it.
00:18Why am I talking about that?
00:20Keep going.
00:21I'm going to tell everything that he did for the whole chariot scene.
00:24Yeah.
00:25That was a cool little song I got to do, hanging off the back.
00:30They put a pad down.
00:31I wasn't actually dragging, but my stunt double Adam was.
00:35But no, I think the most difficult part about the chariot sequence was I was...
00:40I was harnessed to like the inside, like the...
00:45in front of the chariot.
00:46And then Daniel was behind me, harnessed around me.
00:49So we'd have to keep...
00:50like switching places.
00:51While we're doing like the fights.
00:52While we're doing the fights, and it was just like impossible to get...
00:55through.
00:56Also, because it's going so fast, but it's still a chariot, like it's like kind of like...
01:00jolting the whole time.
01:01So it's like, you're trying not to kind of like get tossed back as it's going to look...
01:05ridiculous, because you're not supposed to be like chained in there.
01:08Right.
01:09So you're trying to like keep your...
01:10balance while also kind of dancing around each other for this thing.
01:14It was...
01:15Yeah.
01:16Yeah.
01:15It was really fun, but it was, yeah, kind of challenging for sure.
01:18One thing I don't know if a lot of people know this...
01:20but the chariot race track is at our Camp Haploma...
01:25that was another crazy magical thing.
01:27Like where the cabins are, you can walk from...
01:30from there down to the chariot race.
01:31So it's not in some other place.
01:32It's really close.
01:33Yeah.
01:34Something about that...
01:35and it actually was for logistical reasons as well, right?
01:37So that we could be shooting stuff over...
01:40there while we were in the...
01:42we could service both of those units.
01:45but...
01:46I mean, it's all on screen.
01:4770 horses from the Calgary Stampede, right?
01:50Like...
01:51We got a lot.
01:52You want to talk about Danny?
01:54Um...
01:55Yeah.
01:55I mean, we...
01:56It...
01:57It's...
01:58I think there's always at least one of these things.
02:00that um...
02:01you look at at the beginning and feel like,
02:02um...
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02:58exciting to be in the middle of.
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