- Warning: main spoilers below if you haven’t seen the full season 3 of “Cobra Kai” on Netflix.
- Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg talk to Insider about season 3 secrets and spoilers.
- We found out how they finally got Elisabeth Shue on the show, who played Ali in “The Karate Kid”. And what was their plan if they didn’t get it.
- The single shot fight sequence should have originally been at the Miyagi-Do dojo, not at LaRusso’s home.
- Khalil E Average, who plays Chris on the show, did his own stunts on the fight scene.
- Fan favorites, Stingray and Aisha, were not in season three due to “a story decision”.
- Visit the Insider home page for more stories.
The creators of “Cobra Kai”, Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg immediately saw the change in reactions when their show that looks at the characters from “Karate Kid” films decades later moved from YouTube to Netflix in its third season.
“A few hours after ‘Cobra Kai’ appeared on Netflix, I received messages from friends and family about how good the show was. And I thought, ‘You told me that a few years ago’, and then I realized that they hadn’t seen the show at that time, “said Schlossberg.
Although the trio knew beloved fans of the “The Karate Kid” franchise were arriving in impressive numbers to watch the show when he was on YouTube for the first two seasons (and paying a subscription to do so), last season’s release on Netflix in 1st January completely eclipsed anything they had previously experienced with regard to reactions.
And according to Netflix, the show was seen by more than 41 million households in its first 28 days.
(LR) “Cobra Kai” creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald.
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Regardless of whether you are a dedicated “Cobra Kai” fan or just starting to become one, chances are that you really enjoyed the third season of the series, which continued to deliver an impressive mix of nostalgia to fans. from “The Karate Kid” with exciting new stories focused on children who were sucked into the rivalry between Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
Insider had a conversation full of spoilers with creators Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg about the third season of the series, in which they reveal what it was like to finally make Elisabeth Shue return as her character Ali from the first film, and why they wait for the next season not it’s the last.