Exclusive: Lyon Daniels talks Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles and playing Jared
Now playing on the Roku Channel is The Spiderwick Chronicles, starring Joy Bryant, Lyon Daniels, Noah Cottrell, Mychala Lee, Jack Dylan Grazer, Christian Slater, and Alyvia Alyn Lind.
The Grace family moves from Brooklyn, New York, to their ancestral home in Henson, Michigan, the Spiderwick Estate. Helen makes the move with her 15-year-old fraternal twin boys, Jared and Simon, and her older daughter, Mallory. Shortly after moving to the Spiderwick Estate Jared discovers a boggart and realizes that magical creatures are real! The only one to believe him is his great-aunt Lucinda who implores Jared to find the pages of her father’s field guide to magical creatures and protect them from the murderous Ogre, Mulgarath.
Lyon Daniels plays the lead character “Jared Grace” in the upcoming Roku/Paramount + original live-action series The Spiderwick Chronicles. Recently, he starred in the popular Netflix film We Can Be Heroes as the superhero “Noodles,” alongside Priyanka Chopra, Sung Kang, Pedro Pascal and Boyd Holbrook. The film held the record for the most-watched family film in Netflix's history; around 44 million households watched the movie within the first four weeks of its release on Netflix.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Lyon Daniels talks Roku'sThe Spiderwick Chronicles and playing Jared.