TVLINE | With Kreese stuck in jail, how is he going to figure into the conflict with Terry Silver? (Hey, that matters when you’re behind bars!)īelow, TVLine talks to Martin Kove to break down the Kreese-centric episode, including his relationship with secret agent Tory, feelings toward former student Johnny and why a major loss from his past still haunts him. “You don’t know me very well,” he told them before delivering a hefty karate beatdown to everyone who’d underestimated him and stolen his Jell-O. Then after confronting his lingering anger and raw emotions, Kreese went back to his cell and finally let loose on his jail mates. This news comes from another therapy session, Kreese cycled through repressed memories as he appeared to be speaking directly to his lost love Betsy, young Johnny, Terry Silver and even Captain Turner. All three seasons are available to stream now on Netflix. It required a little bit more digging to continue to have the audience to be willing, to not necessarily be on Kreese's side, but to understand what his side even is, rather than just have him be a mustache twirling figure, who's going to come in and grab things."Ĭobra Kai stars William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni Decenzo, Peyton List, and Martin Kove. But once we've taken the leap of doing what we did at the end of season two and seeing Kreese, actually take a stranglehold to Cobra Kai, and take it back from Johnny. Not going so far back, but going back to the in-between years, the years after Karate Kid Part III and redeeming him a little bit in the way that he was a broken man who has regret in his life and was only trying to help. Once we brought him back in Season 2, we began the work of getting into John Kreese's past. "We had to experience a little bit of growth and then we had to bring back, that fearful figure.
According to Heald, what delineates the Kreese seen in Cobra Kai from The Karate Kid movies is that audiences are now better able to understand his motivations. After Kreese made his entry in Cobra Kai, he was soon up to his old tricks, teaching a new generation of students that the only important thing is winning at all cost. While Johnny was the main antagonist of The Karate Kid, a cruel, bullying rich kid with a chip on his shoulder, it was heavily implied that a big reason for Johnny's delinquency was the lessons taught to him by his Cobra Kai sensei Kreese. So at first, we had to get our audience with Johnny." Because he's such a figure that takes all the life out of the room and draws focus that you want to give his moment gravitas and lean into that character for that fear and experience it through Johnny's eyes and be with Johnny on that journey. So we knew there was real power in Kreese and it contributed to why we waited until the very end of the first season to bring him back.
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In the '80s, there was Darth Vader and there was John Kreese in terms of movie villains that frightened us as kids and rooms in which we didn't want to enter. "We knew from the beginning that Kreese had been the big bad wolf of the franchise.
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But despite muddying the waters in terms of who we consider the good guys and bad guys of the story, the co-creator of Cobra Kai, Josh Heald, told that the series does indeed have one clear villain, John Kreese. Rather both characters have plenty of shades of grey within them. Featuring a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, the show has done an excellent job of showing that Daniel is not the all-white heroic figure, and Johnny is not the all-black bullying villain that we remember from our childhoods. Cobra Kai has positioned itself as a more nuanced take on the iconic film The Karate Kid.
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