Veep and Candy star Timothy Simons has been tapped to join the cast of Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 for the next installment of the hit Disney+ fantasy series.

Simons will be a recurring guest star as Tantalus, who is described as "sarcastic, manipulative, openly hostile and rarely in a good mood… as he is cursed with eternal hunger and thirst, yet can never eat or drink," reads Tantalus' full character description. "Tantalus is released from captivity in the Underworld to become interim Activities Director at Camp Half-Blood, replacing Chiron, who is suspected of having ties to Kronos."

Percy Jackson and the Olympians currently stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Glynn Turman as Chiron and Toby Stephens as Poseidon. Based on Rick Riordan's second Camp Half-Blood Chronicles book titled The Sea of Monsters, Season 2 will also introduce new characters played by Daniel Diemer as Percy's cyclops half-brother Tyson, Margaret Cho as Wasp, Kristen Schaal as Tempest and Sandra Bernhard as Anger.

"Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood a year later to find his world turned upside down," the show's latest logline reads. "His friendship with Annabeth has changed, he discovers he has a Cyclops brother, Grover has gone missing, and the camp is under siege by Kronos' forces. Percy's quest to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret destiny awaits the son of Poseidon."