'Percy Jackson' star Walker Scobell is skipping prom, so enough with the death threats

Walker Scobell conscionable wants radical to halt sending decease threats to each teenage miss who mightiness cognize him — and anybody else.

The 17-year-old “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” prima announced Sunday connected societal media that helium volition beryllium skipping his prom and called retired those who are threatening everyone who could perchance beryllium successful his orbit due to the fact that of wherever they live.

“Just to fto everyone know, I volition not beryllium attending prom,” Scobell, who plays the titular demigod successful the Disney+ series, wrote successful a connection posted to his Instagram Story. “Please halt sending decease threats to EVERY teenage miss who could remotely beryllium associated with maine based connected their proximity to wherever I live. It’s not just to them oregon their families.”

“Maybe besides conscionable halt sending decease threats successful general,” helium added. “That’s conscionable not cool. Kinda weird I person to accidental this.”

“Kinda weird” indeed.

Based connected the publication bid by Rick Riordan, “Percy Jackson” is simply a coming-of-age twist connected past Greek mythology that follows Sobell’s rubric quality arsenic helium learns helium is the half-human lad of Poseidon and what that means for him. Scobell was 13 erstwhile helium was formed successful the show.

The histrion antecedently said that it felt “a small spot weird” to spell backmost to schoolhouse aft the archetypal play of the bid had been released but it helped that he’s been going to the aforesaid schoolhouse since the 4th grade.

“Because I consciousness similar I cognize everybody truthful well, and I’ve known them for specified a agelong clip that ... it’s weirder to enactment similar it’s weird,” Scobell told People earlier this year. “I consciousness similar you conscionable judge it close away, and everyone has, which has been ace bully for me.”

This is not the archetypal clip the “Percy Jackson” franchise’s alleged fans person been retired of line.

Aryan Simhadri, who portrays Percy’s champion person Grover Underwood successful the series, spoke retired past twelvemonth astir an unsettling brushwood with a handsy instrumentality erstwhile a radical of “40 drunk assemblage girls” recognized him.

“I was feeling beauteous uncomfortable, truthful I enactment my hands successful my backmost pockets,” Simhadri told Entertainment Weekly. “And past she reached astir and enactment her manus wrong of my backmost pocket, with my manus already successful there. There’s not capable country successful the backmost pouch of jeans for much than 1 hand. She lingered determination a small longer than I would person liked. Not that I would person liked it astatine all.”

And Leah Jeffries, who plays Percy’s different champion friend, Annabeth Chase, was the people of racist backlash erstwhile her casting was announced successful 2022. Riordan, who besides co-created the show, slammed the attacks successful a blog station astatine the time, saying, “We should beryllium capable to hold that bullying and harassing a kid online is inexcusably wrong.”