- Hi, my name's Tanner Buchanan.
- Hey, my name is Xolo Maridueña.
- And I'm William Zabka.
- Hi, I'm Mary Mouser.
- I am Jacob Bertrand.
- I'm Peyton List.
- I am Ralph Macchio.
And we are the cast of Netflix's Cobra Kai
with Buzzfeed to answer all of your burning questions.
And obviously that means there may be some spoilers.
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- Everyone has been talking about the love triangle
between Sam, Miguel, and Robby.
What can you tease about their relationships in season 3?
Drama, in the best way possible in my opinion.
That's what I wanna watch.
When I'm watching a show, I love most of all the buddy heads
and they not making it work
even more than when it's actually working.
I will say that no matter what team you're on,
I think you get a moment.
But I also don't wanna spoil anything too major.
- Teen relationships.
Everything's complicated, probably all over the place.
Just like real life relationships.
I mean, you never know which way it's gonna go.
- Perfect teens.
- We've had some good times and bad times.
But in season 3, I hope to only, you know,
further develop those relationships.
Whether that be with Sam, you know, in a relationship
or just as friends or enemies.
- Or as Miguel and Robby.
We make
- Exactly, or Miguel and Robby, yeah.
- Who do you think Sam belongs with?
- Actually, neither one of these guys, I think.
I think they're both 10 years.
They've got a long way to go.
They got to figure their stuff out.
They have some growing.
If I was Daniel LaRusso, which I'm not,
but if I was, I would prohibit Sam from seeing
either one of them until college.
- Sam belongs with our over-protective dad,
- That's exaggerating.
- being monitored constantly.
I love watching them.
Watching her in both of those relationships.
- I think in their best incarnation,
I think she's good with either one of them.
- I think you're a good influence on both of the boys.
So it's kind of hard.
Like, I feel like Robby needs your character.
I feel like you're the rock for Robby.
But then also you and Miguel are so cute together.
So Tory would be like, "She deserves to be alone."
- I gotta stick up for my boy Miguel, you know.
He was the day one.
I mean, yeah, Robby does need a rock,
but talk to your dad, bro.
Let Miguel and Sam hang.
- That's fire, dang!
Put out your drama in therapy, Robby, okay?
- That's probably true.
It takes job to fix you, okay?
- Season 2 ends on a huge cliffhanger.
How early into season 3 will we find out
if Miguel is still alive
and if he'll be able to fight again?
The short answer is we'll find out pretty early
into the season, whether or not Miguel is alive and in terms
of whether or not he's going to be able to fight again,
I think that's a question that, you know,
we'll have to wait and find out.
- Robby screwed up a lot
in season 2 finale
by hurting Miguel and as Tanner, I would say
that I kinda hope that we find out pretty soon as well.
Robby needs a nemesis.
- That's why you want me to be okay?
- Yeah, I need to keep fighting.
Cobra Kai originally debuted in 2018 on YouTube premium
and now it's been a Netflix's top 10 for weeks.
What does that feel like?
How has the massive fan reaction to the show felt?
- I had no concept for how was actually going to play out
and now it's pretty wild.
People have lots to say in my DMs.
- It's weird how many people
have watched the show
and it's cool to be a part of it.
- Because I came onto it in the second season.
And even later than you guys
who were a part of it from the beginning.
For me, I just feel really fortunate.
It's honestly an amazing thing.
- It's like the second rebirth
of the first rebirth
of the original franchise.
And it just, it feels awesome.
- This whole rollout has been one
kinda surprise and exciting reveal after the other
and we debuted on YouTube originally.
It was a thrill to see people sign on and watch.
So we were counting the numbers going up and up and up.
And we're kinda repeating that
but on a massive scale worldwide
and it feels incredible.
I think we're all super excited to see
how the show's connecting with people all over the world.
- It's really fun to see just the fan base building
on top of what we already had.
- Yeah, it definitely feels wonderful
to see people react to something that, you know,
we filmed almost two years ago at this point.
A lot of people think that Tory and Sam
could be a dynamic duo if they became friends.
What will next season have
in store for them and their rivalry?
- I don't even know how to answer that one.
I do agree.
I actually think it could be a badass duo.
They honestly should become friends.
- I would love to become friends
at some point, but it's the same thing as that.
Like I love the drama.
- Yeah, I think Tory and Sam have a long road to a kinship.
We love to see them at each other's throats.
And yet we long for them to get along.
- They're different but same, you know,
and they'd have a long way to go for sure.
I mean this is fresh wounds.
So maybe 30 years they could be a dynamic duo.
- He took us there.
- Jacob, how long does the mohawk
and tattoo application take?
- The mohawk takes about an hour
and the tattoo, it used to take like 45 minutes
because I would dance
when they would try to put it on.
I started sitting still
and now it takes like maybe 25 minutes.
- Toward the end of season 2, Johnny
and Daniel seemed to appreciate each other a little more.
Now that Kreese has taken over Cobra Kai,
will we see Johnny team up with Daniel and Miyagi-Do?
That is the burning question.
I think there's always a chance
that Johnny and Daniel could somehow find a way,
but they can't get out of their own way
and push themselves aside to see
through the buttons that each other pushes.
It's the joy of watching those characters
in that way and the frustration.
- And now Daniel and Johnny have a small armies behind
them that are all clashing.
So there's a lot in the way of the two of them, I think.
- Did you guys keep anything from the set?
- You did?
- You did? What did you keep?
- I got to keep my whole outfit from my date with shallow.
We had so many multiples of that outfit
that when we went to do the photo shoot at the end
of the season, I was definitely sick and couldn't get there.
I ended up rolling off a plane.
It was a whole adventure.
And I was so sick going home for the photo shoot
that Frank, our costume designer, was like,
"Just don't even change.
Just take your clothes, just wear that outfit out.
Just go."
- I wasn't even really sure it was on set
but in a junkyard episode,
I just found a gear on the ground.
Kept the gear, a random gear from the junkyard.
- Will Johnny find love in season 3?
Tanner, you want to take that?
I'm just kidding.
- I don't know if it will be with my mom,
but I'd be interested to see
if that would be, be a path to take
just to see if you guys could get back into things.
- What were the toughest stunts
you had to film for the show?
- It's interesting.
I would've thought it was the big school fight
and the luck in the season finale,
but I think it might've been the initial fight
because I had barely any time to prepare
for that first fight.
I felt so
I was so nervous.
- Honestly, the end of season fight was the most difficult
for me physically, just having to fight
for all of those seconds straight
and make it look somewhat convincing the entire time.
And it's so funny watching it back.
I cringe so hard.
I'm like, everybody looks incredible.
And then there's me like missing that hook, missing out
what am I throwing out, when I'm doing that?
At the moment though, I was so proud of myself.
We got done with that thing.
I was like, you know what?
We did it.
What about you?
- One with you and Xolo in the woods.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- When it was freezing cold,
I don't even know how your bodies were even working.
- It was just slippery,
the ground was like kinda muddy.
He had these really fast punches that he had the block
and just getting it timing down those
was really, really hard to get down.
And also we were just so, so freaking cold.
- Johnny and Robby have also started to reconnect.
What will season 3 have in store
for their father-son relationship?
And will LaRussos get in the way of it?
- I love our last scene in the parking lot.
Tanner and I talked about this the whole time
we were shooting 'cause, you know,
it was this estranged father-son relationship.
And he'd walked by and I'd see him with, with Daniel
And I'm like, "Imma rope you
into Cobra Kai and everything."
When we finally got to the end where they, you know,
things seem to be getting on track
and we had this the moment outside of school
before the accident, you know,
that's the beginning of where they can start, you know,
and now we have a little bit of a train wreck
at the end of what happened.
That's to me the biggest hole
in Johnny's heart is trying to get to his son.
- I agree with that too, because I believe that scene
in the car, I believe that's only
like the second or third time
like I actually call you dad in the series.
We've both kinda been down and out.
I mean, I was mixed in with the wrong crowd.
You know, Johnny's been off, you know,
he was drinking all kinds of stuff.
But we both really tried to turn our lives around
and make something out of ourselves.
- It's a fun journey.
And it's also the reason why we care.
We care for those father-son relationships
which were ingrained in the theme
of the original Karate Kid
as much as it is Cobra Kai.
- Can we expect to see any more karate kid cast cameos?
- I plead the fifth, that's all Imma say.
- I think people will be happy
but not necessarily in the ways that they expect.
We know a lot about Johnny and Daniel's backstories now.
And we saw a little bit of Hawk's during season 2.
Will we get to learn anything new
about the characters during season 3?
I know that for Sam, we do get some insight into her past
and, you know, some questions that I had about her past.
We get a little peak at that,
which I was really, really appreciative of storywise.
- I feel like when Tory re-emerges
into season 3, you do get to see some backstory.
I learned a lot about the character too,
which was really cool.
Finally, are you yourselves team Cobra Kai or Miyagi-Do?
- I know everyone's answers.
Mary, you are 10000% Miyagi-Do.
- Yes.
- Peyton, you're Cobra Kai, as am I, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Like if I were just a student at West Valley High,
and I saw the Cobras like taking over the school,
I'd be like, "Yes, I want to be that person.
That's so sick."
And then I walk into Cobra Kai and immediately be like,
"Yeah, this is not for me, thanks."
Then I would go find myself Miyagi-Do.
I mean, what's funny is I feel like my, like aesthetic
and my lifestyle is all very like hardcore,
badass Cobra Kai type a person until you speak to me.
And the second I open my mouth, Miyagi-Do all over.
- Because I knew Jacob before
and that was basically the only person I knew,
I mean, when he talked about Cobra Kai,
he genuinely seemed like he was a part of Cobra Kai.
I was a little concerned.
He really deeply cares about Cobra Kai.
I've never seen someone so into it.
No, but then as the season went on,
second season I started filming,
I started getting like, "Oh yeah, screw Miyagi-Do."
- Ralph and William, what's it like
to have a totally new generation of fans
who didn't grow up with the karate kid
but are now obsessed with the Cobra Kai?
That's some of the sweetest part of this all.
The young generation is now backing itself
into the original films.
When they'll see the show, they'll get invested in the show,
they get invested in these characters,
and then they go back to watch the original movies.
You know, what we initially did back in 90 and 80
or whenever it was to see that, you know,
reinvent itself with every generation,
you know, it's beyond.
- I totally agree with that.
It feels like the Karate Kid came out all over again.
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