{"id":220190,"date":"2025-10-17T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:23:11","slug":"kate-mckinnon-percy-jackson-season-3-cast-aphrodite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220190\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon Percy Jackson Season 3 Cast Aphrodite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate McKinnon is feeling the love:\u00a0The “Saturday Night Live”\u00a0alum will play Aphrodite in Season 3 of Disney+’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,”\u00a0Variety<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

McKinnon will recur as\u00a0Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who “can alter her appearance depending on the beholder” and “must be sure that Percy Jackson respects the power and importance of love before she agrees to offer aid on his quest,”\u00a0per the official description.<\/p>\n

Based on the bestselling fantasy book series, “Percy Jackson”\u00a0earned a Season 3 renewal at Disney+ in March. Season 2 is set to debut Wednesday, Dec. 10 on the streamer; get a sneak peek here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other recent casting news…<\/p>\n

*\u00a0John Stamos will guest-star in Season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Palm Royale,”\u00a0a new trailer confirms. Stamos plays a slick, cowboy hat-sporting lawyer colorfully named Dr. Dusty Magic; get a sneak peek here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Millie Bobby Brown will star in the supernatural drama “Prism,”\u00a0currently in development at Netflix, per Deadline<\/a>. She’ll play Cassie, a woman who can speak with spirits and “who must uncover the cause of a newly discovered phenomenon that causes ‘visitors’ (ghosts) to appear all over the world before it’s too late.”<\/p>\n

* “The Boys”\u00a0prequel series “Vought Rising”\u00a0has added four more actors in recurring roles, Deadline<\/a> reports:\u00a0Raphael Sbarge (“Once Upon a Time”), Romi Shraiter\u00a0(“Ginny & Georgia”), Aaron Douglas (“Murder in a Small Town”) and David Hewlett (“Stargate: Atlantis”).\u00a0<\/p>\n

* Netflix’s upcoming thriller “Extraction,”\u00a0starring Omar Sy, has added Sacha Dhawan (“The Great”), Ross McCall (“Silo”), Pip Torrens (“The Crown”) and\u00a0Jojo Macari (“Sex Education”) to the cast, among others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Patrick Fischler (“Mad Men,”\u00a0“Lost”) will play “a key recurring role”\u00a0in Season 2 of Hulu’s “Paradise,”\u00a0according to Deadline<\/a>, as “a brilliant professor trying to balance his work with a quietly challenging personal life.”\u00a0Fischler will also recur on Apple TV+’s upcoming “Cape Fear” adaptation in an undisclosed role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon is feeling the love:\u00a0The “Saturday Night Live”\u00a0alum will play Aphrodite in Season 3 of Disney+’s “Percy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-220190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}