The Percy Jackson and the Olympians actor, Walker Scobell, just had to say something nobody his age should ever have to say out loud, let alone on a public platform with 2.2 million followers watching.
Walker Scobell says he will not attend prom
The 17-year-old Percy Jackson and the Olympians star took to his Instagram Stories on Sunday to address a situation that had forced his hand on one of the most normal teenage milestones there is.
“Just to let everyone know, I will not be attending prom,” he wrote. “Please stop sending death threats to EVERY teenage girl who could remotely be associated with me based on their proximity to where I live. It’s not fair to them or their families. Maybe also just stop sending death threats in general. That’s just not cool. Kinda weird I have to say this.“
That last line says everything about how absurd the situation is.
A teenager having to explicitly explain to other people that sending death threats to random girls in his general vicinity is not acceptable behavior is the kind of sentence that should not need to be written in 2026, and yet here we are. The post spread across social media almost immediately, with fans of the show calling it out as deeply embarrassing for the fandom.
Others pointed out that this was not even the first time a cast member had been forced to speak up, noting that co-star Aryan Simhadri, who plays Grover Underwood, had recently described his own uncomfortable run-in with overzealous fans during a promotional interview.
According to Simhadri, he was in public when a group of forty drunk girls recognized him, and one proceeded to reach her hand into his back pocket while his own hand was already there. He described the encounter as “lingering” considerably longer than he would have liked, which is to say he would not have liked it at all.
Scobell plays the titular son of Poseidon in the Disney+ and Hulu adaptation of Rick Riordan’s beloved YA series, which has been one of the streamer’s biggest hits since Season 1 debuted in December 2023.
Season 2, adapting The Sea of Monsters, premiered in December 2025. Season 3, which will adapt The Titan’s Curse, is expected to arrive later this year.
For now, prom is off the table, and this should not be a sentence about a 17-year-old who just wants to have a normal night.
