Why Cobra Kai By no means Introduced Again That One Main Karate Child Character

Now that it’s over, we are able to safely say Cobra Kai did it all. It checked seemingly each single field a fan of The Karate Kid franchise might’ve needed, whereas additionally servicing all the new characters launched on the present.

Properly, with one exception.

You know the one. It’s the one everybody has been asking for for years. The one which didn’t occur within the ultimate episodes. So now that the present is over,  we determined to ask the creators Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz if this individual’s return was ever even within the playing cards. There are not any spoilers beneath besides that the individual doesn’t present up.

We’re speaking, in fact, about Hilary Swank, the a number of Oscar-winning actress who, earlier than all that, appeared as Mr. Miyagi’s different pupil, Julie Pierce, in 1994’s The Final Karate Child. Since Cobra Kai debuted, and made some extent to deliver again so many stars of the unique franchise, everybody has questioned if Swank would present up and share some data or reminiscences about Miyagi. Properly, she didn’t, and now that she hasn’t, we requested the group it was ever even into account.

“It’s a type of conditions the place we all the time discover,” Schlossberg advised io9. “We attempt to discover out what the choices are as a result of we don’t management all these actors’ lives. It was no assure that we had been going to get Yuji [Okumoto] or Thomas Ian Griffith again. So we explored it. However we realized fairly rapidly that that wasn’t going to occur within the ultimate season.”

“With Julie Pierce, it was one thing that we’d have beloved to have executed,” Hurwitz added. “However one of many issues we all the time say is, ‘Issues occur for a purpose.’ And creatively, it really labored out completely positive. And we’re thrilled with how the season ended up.”

“And I’ll say there’s no misplaced episode on the market,” Heald mentioned. “We didn’t get deep sufficient the place we’re like, ‘Right here it’s.’ And now we have now to completely shift. We explored very early to simply make that relationship and see if it was attainable. And the timing was such that it simply couldn’t work out. And we wrote figuring out that. So we didn’t have any form of regret.”

There you’ve got it, Cobra Kai followers. At a sure level there was an try to deliver Swank into the universe, nevertheless it didn’t work out and was by no means deliberate for. Possibly we’ll see her in Karate Child Legends, or no matter venture these three have subsequent. However most likely not.

All episodes of Cobra Kai at the moment are streaming on Netflix.

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