Why Cobra Kai has never returned this core karate kid character

Now that it is over, we can safely say Cobra Kai did everythingS She was checking at first sight every box a fan of Drive the kid franchise It may be required while serving all the new characters presented in the show.

Well, with one exception.

You know this oneS This is what they all have He has been asking for yearsS The one who did not happen in the last episodes. So now that the show is over, we decided to ask the creators Hayden Schlosberg, Josh Heland and John Hervitz if this man’s return was even in the cards. There are no spoilers below, except that the person does not appear.

We are talking about Hillary Swank of course, the crowd won with an Oscar Karate’s last childS Since Cobra Kai He made his debut and made a point back so many stars from the original franchise, everyone wondered if Swank would show up and share some knowledge or memories of Miyagi. Well, she didn’t do it, and now that she wasn’t, we asked the team that he had ever even meant.

“This is one of those situations we always explore,” Schlosberg told IO9. “We are trying to understand what the options are because we do not control the lives of all these actors. It was no guarantee that we would return Yuji (Okumoto) or Thomas Ian Griffith. That’s how we researched it. But we learned quite quickly that this would not happen last season. “

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“With Julie Pierce, it was something we would love to do,” Harvitz added. “But one of the things we always say is,” Things happen for a reason. ” And creatively, actually turned out to be perfectly well. And we are excited about how the season was. “

“And I will say that there is no episode lost there,” Hild said. “We didn’t get deep enough where we are like,” Here it is. ” And now we have to move completely. We studied very early to make this connection and see if it is possible. And the time was such that it just couldn’t work. And we wrote, knowing this. So we had no kind of remorse. “

You have it there, Cobra Kai Fans. At some point, there was an attempt to get Swank into the universe, but it didn’t work out and was never planned. Maybe we’ll see her in KARATE KID LEGENDSOr whatever project these three have the next ones. But probably not.

All episodes of Cobra Kai They are now surrendered to Netflix.

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