Now that it is over, we can safely say Cobra kai did everything. It checked apparently every single box fan of The karate child franchise might be desired, while also serving all the new characters introduced on the show.
Well, with one exception.
You know that. It is the one everyone has Asks for years. The one who didn’t happen in the final episodes. So now that the show is over, we decided to ask the creators Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz if this person’s return was ever even in the cards. There are no spoilers below except that the person does not appear.
We speak, of course, about Hilary Swank, the numerous Oscar-winning actress, who above all appeared as Mr. Miyagi’s other student, Julie Pierce, in 1994 The last karate child. Since Cobra kai debuted and aimed to bring so many stars from the original franchise, everyone wondered if Swank would appear and share some knowledge or memories of Miyagi. Well, she didn’t, and now, when she didn’t, we asked the team that it was even considered.
“It’s one of those situations where we always explore,” Schlossberg told something9. “We’re trying to find out what the options are because we don’t control all these lives. There was no guarantee that we will get Yuji [Okumoto] Or Thomas Ian Griffith back. So we explored it. But we learned pretty quickly that this wouldn’t happen in the final season. ”
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“With Julie Pierce, it was something we would have loved to do,” Hurwitz added. “But one of the things we always say is,” things happen for a reason. “And creatively, it actually turned out quite well. And we’re thrilled about how the season ended.”
“And I’ll say it’s not a lost episode there,” Heald said. “We didn’t get deep enough where we look like,” here it is. “And now we have to change fully. We explored very early to just make that relationship and see if it was possible. And the time limit was such that it just couldn’t result. And we wrote knowing that. So we didn’t have any repentance.”
There you have it, Cobra kai Fans. At some point there was an attempt to bring Swank into the universe, but it did not turn out and was never planned. Maybe we’ll see her in Karate Kid LegendsOr whatever project these three will have later. But probably not.
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