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“Percy Jackson and the Olympians”\u00a0is welcoming some new gods and goddesses \u2014\u00a0led by a Marvel TV star.<\/p>\n
Ming-Na Wen, an alum of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,”\u00a0will play the goddess Hera in Season 3 of the Disney+\u00a0fantasy series, Variety<\/a> reports. Hera is the queen of Olympus and wife to Courtney B. Vance’s Zeus, and is described as “regal, maternal, and no-nonsense.” In addition to playing Melinda May on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,”\u00a0Wen’s TV credits include “ER,”\u00a0“Stargate Universe,” and “The Book of Boba Fett.”<\/p>\n Additionally, Jennifer Beals (“The L Word”) will join Season 3 of “Percy Jackson”\u00a0as harvest goddess Demeter, who “will do what she must to prevent the return of her father Kronos,” and Hubert Smielecki (“Ransom Canyon”) will play the sun god Apollo, who is “the literal golden boy of Olympus and twin brother to the goddess Artemis,” played by Dafne Keen. Season 3 of “Percy Jackson”\u00a0is expected to debut on Disney+\u00a0later this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n In other casting news…<\/p>\n
Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n * Chelsea Handler is set to star in “Townhouse,”\u00a0a comedy series in the works at Hulu, according to Deadline<\/a>. She’ll play a washed-up reality star who “is confronted with the one role she’s spent her entire life avoiding: motherhood”\u00a0when her estranged daughter moves into her crumbling Manhattan townhouse.<\/p>\n * CBS’ “Yellowstone”\u00a0spinoff “Marshals”\u00a0has tapped country singer Riley Green to guest-star in multiple episodes, Variety<\/a> reports. He’ll play Garrett, a former Navy SEAL who shows up at the ranch hoping to “put the demons of his past to rest.”<\/p>\n *\u00a0Joe Pantoliano (“The Last of Us”) has joined the cast of “Power Book III: Raising Kanan”\u00a0for its upcoming fifth and final season, per Deadline<\/a>. In a major recurring role, he’ll play\u00a0Pino Bernardi, the head of the Manhattan Mafia.<\/p>\n * Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Poppy Liu (“Hacks”), and writer Andrew Law (“The Good Place”) will star in Netflix’s adult animated comedy “DANG!,” TVLine has learned. The show follows a “a brother and sister duo whose fun, messy lives in New York City are interrupted when their worst nightmare comes true: Their high-achieving older sister shows up and wants to hang out with them.”<\/p>\n
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