The Karate Kid sequence looks like a household. Cobra Kai has definitely drawn on each nook of the movie franchise to convey characters again for the present. That features Thomas Ian Griffith, who will play Terry Silver once more in season 4. Household has brief reminiscences, it appears. Previous to Cobra Kai, Griffith recalled working right into a flummoxed Martin Kove.
“I don’t know what it was exactly,” Griffith advised the Cobra Kai Kompanion podcast on July 30. “It was some event. I think we were having dinner at a place and there was an event upstairs or something. Someone said, ‘Oh, the guys from Karate Kid are up there.’”
That was all Griffith wanted to listen to. Karate Kid Part III launched Silver as certainly one of John Kreese (Kove)’s Vietnam Conflict buddies. After Cobra Kai’s defeat on the All-Valley Karate Event within the authentic movie, Silver stepped in to assist Kreese get revenge on Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita). Silver provided to coach Daniel to combat Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan) within the subsequent match, however Barnes was actually on Cobra Kai’s crew.
“My wife and I walked up and I saw Sean and Marty,” Griffith mentioned. “They were standing there. I walked up and I said, ‘Hey, is this a Karate Kid reunion?’ They looked at me, both of them, and didn’t have any idea who I was.”
Granted, The Karate Kid Part III got here out in 1989. Griffith saved his hair lengthy for some time, however folks change over time.
“I’m going, ‘Wow, I look like hell’ because my hair was white or I had a beard,” Griffith mentioned. “Whatever it was, it took them a second. It was like, ‘Guys, don’t make me kick your asses here. Come on.’ Then of course they gave it up. They’re both fantastic and we had fun. It was a social event. When I first walked up, I think [they thought] they were being hounded by some fan coming after them and they were like, ‘Walk away dude.’”
The bond went deeper as a result of Kanan suffered an damage making The Karate Kid Part III. Cobra Kai caught collectively and rallied round him.
“It could’ve been the last sequence of Karate Kid III but I remember him getting hurt or being hurt and not being able to do any of the physical stuff,” Griffith mentioned. “So I think they had to work around that. I think there was plenty of other stuff to do that we shot. Then when he could come back, they worked him back in. There was too much fight choreography for him in that last sequence.”
One unsung a part of the Karate Kid Part III household was Fumio Demura. Demura was a stuntman who doubled Morita for intense martial arts scenes. Griffith started working with Demura for Silver’s combat with Miyagi.
“Pat Morita comes in which he had this amazing martial arts [double] Fumio Demura, incredibly Japanese style Karate guy,” Griffith mentioned. “I do the fight choreography with Pat and then I get in there and this guy’s trying to kill me. Dude, man, I am so bruised. All right, we are stepping up our game. I think they got some really good stuff. He’s the sweetest man but incredible martial artist which I respect and I love. I respond to that stuff. So knowing that I got to work with someone like that was great.”
Cobra Kai Season 4 premieres in December on Netflix.
Supply: Cobra Kai Kompanion podcast