‘Cobra Kai’ Creators Wanted Hilary Swank Cameo in Final Season and Were ‘Disappointed’

The closing season of Cobra Kai was a treasure trove of surprises for The Karate Kid followers, however the present’s creators had been “slightly” disillusioned that one cameo could not come to fruition.

Josh Heald, who created the sequence alongside Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, informed Entertainment Weekly about wanting two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, who performed Julie Pierce within the 1994 movie The Next Karate Kid, to pop up in season 6.

“We did attain out within the very early days earlier than the season to see if there was a path [for her to appear],” Heald revealed. “We had an inkling of an thought about how she might come into this story and never should decide to 10 episodes or one thing.”

Heald mentioned after he, Hurwitz and Schlossberg had “the beginnings of a genesis of an thought,” they approached Swank’s group.

The creators wished to “discover out if we might have a dialogue along with her about it and introduce ourselves,” he mentioned.

Unfortunately for them — and followers — they did not have any luck.

“On her finish, it was very respectful, however we by no means bought that chance to take a seat down and pour our coronary heart out the way in which that we usually do once we convey again characters from the legacy,” Heald mentioned.

Heald defined that Swank “was simply in a spot the place she wasn’t trying to do this” and return to the Karate Kid franchise, having lately welcomed her twins and being in manufacturing on different initiatives.

She gave the creators “a respectful cross on the thought of even a gathering,” Heald mentioned.

“She did not need us to undergo the difficulty of flying out to her and placing our coronary heart on the sleeve as a result of it simply wasn’t one thing she was able to do at that second,” he added.

Heald mentioned he and his fellow co-creators have not misplaced hope.

Even with Cobra Kai having ended, he mentioned there’s nonetheless an opportunity for Swank to reprise her character in future initiatives.

“It’s an enormous piece of the Miyagi-verse that is nonetheless on the market,” he teased.

“For us, it was slightly disappointing as a result of we like getting everyone, however on the identical time, we did not sacrifice any large story that we had totally developed,” Heald continued. “It’s extra fruit on the vine for if we will revisit this universe going ahead.”

No extra Karate Kid or Cobra Kai spinoffs have been introduced, however the creators have hinted on the risk and Karate Kid: Legends opened in theaters on May 30.