Hey, I am Mary Mouser from Cobra Kai
and this is "Shot by Shot."
Season five of Cobra Kai just dropped,
and we are gonna break down a scene from episode three,
where I fight against my shadow self in a karate nightmare.
I will say right off the bat
that I actually am claustrophobic.
So, getting in the sensory deprivation tank was actually
probably the most nerve-wracking part
of all of this for me.
We had a lot of different names for it,
but it was The Void.
That's where we were shooting.
We have a,
a second set
which is the La Russo house on a sound stage.
And it's not like the practical La Russo house
that actually exists.
It's a real house that you can live at.
Where the pool should be,
that's where The Void was set up.
It was basically just like these,
kind of like rods that were hanging
from the ceiling holding like five black curtains.
Sam, what are you doing here?
I'm not sure.
I'm supposed to be figuring out who I am.
What do you mean?
You're La Russo 2.0
La Russo, 2.0,
which is kind of, that was her season four arc,
was like battling against La Russo 2.0.
Sam's kind of going through this moment
in her life where she's not sure who she is.
I think that's kind of a running thing for Samantha.
She's trying to figure it out.
She's looking for answers,
and she's thinking that those answers are gonna be found
in figuring things out with Miguel,
or figuring things out about Tory, or about Cobra Kai.
And what it comes down to is really just
that she needs to figure out who she is with herself.
You're the girl who lost.
My girlfriend, Sam. Why can’t you just be
- more supportive. - What are you doing here?
This was also super trippy.
We genuinely shot it in a circle like that
where everybody stood around me and I was in the middle
and the camera followed me going the opposite direction.
And I got to actually just spin around in a circle.
I was so dizzy by the end of it.
And then this is my badass stunt double,
Selkie Hom,
who I'm getting to fight against.
She was playing one Sam
while I played the other one and vice versa.
And it was really fun to get to actually play opposite her
because we trained together so much
to get Samantha's vibe right.
It was so weird watching her actually be Sam
at the same time as me also being Sam.
There's my sais, which are my babies.
I remember talking to our producers
and writers over the summer before we started season five,
and they were like, "Is there anything
you'd really love Sam to be able to do?"
And I was like, "Well,
I'm so far the only person who's learned two weapons,
not just one weapon, but two weapons,
and I think a weapons fight would be really fun."
The problem was because we were
in separate gis, separate, you know, vibes, hairstyles.
We had even different like nail colors.
I don't know if anybody but me and Selkie
and my makeup artist on the show, Jamie, would notice that.
We literally had to do like a full reset
in order for Selkie to be dark Sam and then light Sam,
and for me to be dark Sam and light Sam.
So, it created this practical challenge where,
once we were set up in those characters,
we couldn't do the switching in and out.
So, everything that was choreographed was stuff
that we could feasibly get me to do.
So, I actually got to learn all the movements
with the bo staff.
I actually got to learn the movements with the sais,
and then I got to actually do it with my stunt double,
which is just like, it feels like a dream,
which I guess it literally is.
But it was, it was like a total dream.
That was one of my favorite moments was getting
to disarm the bo staff and then the flying kick,
which actually, was a little bit of an Eagle Fang move,
which I love.
This room was also actually a working sauna,
and they had shut it off 24 hours
before we started filming it.
But while we were filming in that room, it was sauna-hot.
So that was, I mean, both nice and terrible
'cause I was actually really sweaty.
Maybe that's TMI.
Wasn't it enlightening?
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