Talk about making a big first impression! Dior Goodjohn’s performance as Clarrise has been a memorable one for fans who have seen the first two episodes of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, but it’s star Walker Scobel who had something major to say about it.
While at the 92nd St Y in New York for an interview on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast, Walker admitted that he became a little scared of his co-star during the iconic Capture the Flag scene in the show’s second episode that featured a showdown between Percy and Clarisse.
“You know the scene after I snap Dior’s spear and she screams and runs at me? I’m sorry, I just remembered this, I was actually afraid. Like she had pure malicious intent in her eyes. I thought she was going to hurt me,” he revealed.
Well, we caught up with Dior at the Percy Jackson and the Olympians World Premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and just had to ask her about it.
“I mean, seal of approval from mini Ryan Reynolds. So like, I’m really feeling it right now. I’m in my glow,” she said.
“Sometimes I get really into it. Kind of like muffles on the ears and everything goes blank. I was just really feeling it after [director] James [Bobin] told me, ‘We need more. We need to see it in your eyes. Don’t be afraid to really get in there and rough him up a little bit.’ And I was like, ‘Say less.’ And then I guess I scared him a little bit,” Dior continued. “He never told me that I freaked him out this much!”
Don’t worry, they posed together on the carpet so it’s all good between them. But at least it proves that Dior totally is the IRL daughter of Ares.
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Tamara Fuentes is the current Entertainment Editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers TV, movies, books, celebrities, and more. She can often be found in front of a screen fangirling about something new. Before joining Cosmopolitan, she was the entertainment editor over at Seventeen. She is also a member of the Television Critics Association and the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
