{"id":202478,"date":"2025-12-25T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202478\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:06:07","slug":"dior-goodjohn-breaks-down-episode-4-ironclad-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202478\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior Goodjohn Breaks Down Episode 4 Ironclad Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains spoilers for \u201cClarisse Blows Up Everything,\u201d the fourth episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians<\/a> season two.]<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the first season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Clarisse La Rue was straightforwardly a foil for the show\u2019s title character \u2014\u00a0a tough, sometimes bullying antagonist who seemed to enjoy harassing Percy (Walker Scobell) as he got used to the idea of being a demigod and learned his way around Camp Half-Blood.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the show\u2019s second season, though Clarisse, played by Dior Goodjohn<\/a>, becomes much more central to the story, and Goodjohn gets to show several more layers to the character \u2014 including some self-doubt as she takes on the quest for the Golden Fleece and, as she puts it, some \u201cepic\u201d physical acting and stunts in episode four, when Clarisse takes command of a Civil War-era ironclad ship to sail through the Sea of Monsters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Percy Jackson production team built a huge physical set<\/a> for the ironclad and put the cast through a demanding (and very wet) sequence of filming for the scenes in which Clarisse, Percy, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries), Tyson (Daniel Diemer) and a crew of undead sailors pilot the ship between the twin dangers of Scylla and Charybdis, who guard the entrance to the Sea of Monsters. After initially opting for a plan to sacrifice several members of the crew to Scylla to gain passage, Clarisse suddenly pivots to attack Charybdis, leading to chaos \u2014\u00a0but also a scene she cited as one of her favorites of the season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a scene where I run out the bow of my ship in the rain, like full on storm level, and I hop on this giant gun,\u201d she told The Hollywood Reporter on the show\u2019s set late last year, during filming of season two. \u201cI\u2019m spinning and shooting, Walker is at the very front of the bow and controlling the ocean. It\u2019s the most epic shot I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s so cool.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBefore she takes command of the ironclad, however, she faces moments of doubt. In episode three<\/a>, she hesitates when asking for a prophecy from the oracle before leaving on her quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece, which will heal Thalia\u2019s tree and the barrier that protects Camp Half-Blood. Then, in a meeting her father \u2014 Ares, the Greek god of war (Adam Copeland) \u2014\u00a0before setting sail, the scene plays out like he\u2019s an overly aggressive sports dad whom she desperately wants to be proud of her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn her head, she\u2019s just a little girl who wants to make her dad happy so badly,\u201d Goodjohn told THR. With Clarisse and Ares, this is like getting really heavy, but it\u2019s a somewhat abusive parent-child relationship. One of her most admirable qualities is her leadership, but her leadership doesn\u2019t come from her giving orders. Her leadership comes from the love of the team, and that comes from her loyalty, and her loyalty was trained by her father. She knows nothing but that you stick with the people that you were put here with, even if they hurt you and tell you that you\u2019re not anything. One thousand percent, her need for approval and her need for recognition and love from her father is the main driving force.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClarisse initially sets out on the quest solo, but after meeting up with Percy, Annabeth and Tyson \u2014\u00a0who are AWOL from camp \u2014 she begins to understand that she doesn\u2019t have to take on every challenge herself. She also changes tactics with the ship\u2019s undead crew: After they ignore her attempts at barking orders, she appeals to their desire to be seen as heroes. Defeated warriors owe a debt to Ares, and she promises that should they succeed, they\u2019ll be delivered to Elysium rather than the painful afterlife they\u2019ve endured so far.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe realizes that demanding things from people is not gonna work, and she is not her father, as much as she tries to be,\u201d Goodjohn said of Clarisse\u2019s epiphany. \u201cShe just gets really real. That\u2019s one thing that I love about her. She\u2019s not afraid to get in the dirt with her people. She\u2019s not gonna tell her men to go jump off a bridge and not jump off the bridge with them. So she takes that leap and is like, \u2018You guys suck, and I suck too, but we don\u2019t have to. You just have to meet me where I\u2019m at. If you meet me where I\u2019m at, we can win.\u2019 And that\u2019s exactly what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[This story contains spoilers for \u201cClarisse Blows Up Everything,\u201d the fourth episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[99753,4550,146,85,46,76132,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-202478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dior-goodjohn","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}