‘Cobra Kai’ star Martin Kove shares alternatively end for character (exclusively)

Martin Kove is satisfied with how Cobra KaiThe last season left his character, John CirclesBut it was another way that his story could have, and almost ended.

While they are exclusively talking to people at the premiere of season 2 of 1923 In Los Angeles, Karate child The actor, 77, said there was an alternative final Filmed for his character that was finally decided against.

In the last moments of the second last episode of the series, Kreese comes into a confrontation on a yacht with Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). In the middle of their struggles, the couple strikes a large fuel tank, and Kreese later takes their cigar and throws it into the fuel and starts an explosion that destroys the boat and probably kills them both. However, their bodies are not seen in the aftermath.

“Many of the fans believe that the character, he should have come out of the water and survived, (and) we shot such a scene,” Kove said. “We shot a scene there … I smoke the cigar and I take a newspaper.”

“It means in section 15 (series finale) that he did not die, but they did not use it because they thought it was a little Hokey,” he continued and referred to Cobra Kai Showrunners. “The ship was such a big explosion. But I understood the motivation.”

According to Kove, Kreeses’ death could be considered “doubtful anyway, since my character always comes out of the darkness of the rock.”

“So even if it’s the last season, it will live on because Cobra Kai never dies,” he added.

Jon Hurwitz, one of Cobra KaiCreators and Showrunners talked about the alternative end in a February 20 Instagram.

Sharing a picture of a fake newspaper with silver on the cover, which he said was designed by the show’s “incredible prop master, Eric Bates,” Hurwitz said it would be used to “suggest Kreese was still alive” but was dropped “when we saw what the boat explosion looked like.”

“At the end of the day, we wanted our finale to end triumphant and with credibility – not with an absurd confirmation that John Kreese somehow survived the fiery blast,” he explained further.

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When it comes to his feelings on his character overall, Kove told people that he was happy with Kreeses’s progress throughout the show.

“I have driven the vulnerability to this character for a long time, and sometimes he gets it, sometimes he doesn’t,” he said.

“But how it ended … It was just rich,” Kove added. “That’s what I like to do more than kick ass and all this.”

“I like the fact that they took the character all the way from the darkest place Karate child“He continued.” I wrote on doing the business only if they would write exposed scenes and show how he could be who he was, and they did slowly for five seasons exactly what I wanted to do. “

Cobra Kaiwhich premiered in May 2018, served as a follow -up series to the original Karate child Movies, with Ralph Macchio and William Zabka Reprise their roles such as Daniel Larusso and Johnny Lawrence respectively.

The Emmy-nominated series is set decades after the films and sees Kove’s Kreese take over Cobra Kai Dojo from Zabkas Lawrence in the hope of guiding a new generation of Karate children.

All six seasons of Cobra Kai Now flows on Netflix.