How the ‘Percy Jackson’ Team Made an Adaptation ‘Designed to be Difficult’

Fighting a minotaur can be a pretty daunting task. But according to Walker Scobell, the 14-year-old star of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, it’s actually… funny. Yes, that’s right. Fighting a monstrous, sweaty, smelly beast is hilarious.

At least, this is what Scobell tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed while chatting about Disney+’s new adaptation of Rick Riordan’s novel series of the same name. The minotaur fight—which happens in the first episode, set to release on Dec. 20—was the biggest, trickiest battle of the season, Scobell says. And for some reason, he found himself giggling on set.

“You can’t really see me smiling because it was raining so much, but it was hard to get used to fighting a guy in a skin-tight suit and holding a minotaur’s head,” Scobell recalls. Fighting these CGI monsters, especially as a preteen, was tricky—even if it made him laugh too.

Read more at The Daily Beast.