Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg explore what fans can expect from Cobra Kai season 6 part 2, as the Netflix drama gets to the beginning of the Sekai Taikai. Following a big start in part 1, there are many questions to be answered in Cobra Kai season 6 part 2, as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence take their fighters after all their preparation in the first five episodes. However, the obstacles that wait for them at the Sekai Taikai will be more than simply having to see one of their former teammates switch back to Cobra Kai.
As the students get ready for their biggest tournament of all time, new fights await in Cobra Kai season 6 part 2, which will raise the stakes more than ever. Now that they are competing on a worldwide level, it is no longer just about Miyagi-Do against Cobra Kai. The final season will now also pit both of the teams against numerous other dojos from all over the world that will challenge the leading characters in ways that they haven't been tested before.
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To get ready for the next five episodes in Cobra Kai season 6 part 2, showrunners and directors Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg returned for a new interview with ScreenRant where they lay out more of what viewers can expect in the November 15 release. Throughout the interview, the Cobra Kai trio breaks down the challenging aspects of creating multiple new teams from across the world as Miyagi-Do Karate arrives in Barcelona towards the end of part 1. The creators also look back at the evolution of the Cobra Kai cast and their path of mastering more about the art of karate, and what fans should expect when it comes to the characters who are still back home.
Cobra Kai Creators Preview What Is In Store For Season 6 Part 2
"This was something that was a big undertaking with people from the beginning of our process."
Screen Rant: One thing that I really love seeing that doesn't give away too much, is the fact that we're seeing all these different dojos and cultures from all over the world. What was the most challenging aspect of creating all these new characters, all these new dynamics, but also looking at how karate is reflected in the rest of the world as they all come together?
Jon Hurwitz: This was a huge undertaking for everybody, from our filmmaking process, from starting in the writers' room with our group talking about, 'Okay, how many teams are there going to be? Which countries should they be from? Which characters are we going to be focusing on?' We wanted this to be more than just Miyagi-Do versus Cobra Kai for a change. We wanted this to be something where there are new fighters that are involved in a big way on the show. Then there are fighters that are involved in a few fights here and there, but they need to have enough involvement with our characters that we remember who those characters are. There was so much going on with that, so when we're planning the different kinds of fights, it was thinking about, from a character standpoint, where everybody is, from a tournament standpoint, doing something that's different than you've ever seen before.
Because we wanted this to not be the All Valley all over again. we wanted to have all sorts of surprising events, with working with our costume designer, Frank Helmer, on 16 different gis and different dojos, and making them each very specific to the region that they're from, and coming up with names for each of them that felt true to them. To even working with our stunt coordinators, talking to them about the different kinds of martial arts that would bring some specificity to fighters from each of the different countries, to working with our composers, to making sure that while certain fighters from different dojos are fighting, they have their own themes that are unique to themselves and their world. This was something that was a big undertaking with people from the beginning of our process to the very end of the process, and it's something that we couldn't be more proud.
I've always loved the stunt coordination on this show. Each season, you are always outdoing each other from the previous seasons by raising the stakes and setting up the fights differently. You're dealing with the biggest tournament of all time in karate, so how much did you get to look back in previous seasons, 'Okay, how do we go from this up to here?'
Josh Heald: We are fortunate and blessed to work with Ken Barefield and Don Lee, the best in the business in terms of the care, the attention, not just the fight design, but the cultural attention to making sure that that each dojos' karate or martial arts is connected in a grounded, believable and authentic way to where those martial arts came from. The idea of putting on a world tournament we started buttering them up in season 5 as we were laying the groundwork for this. So they were thinking all the way from late 2021 into the beginning of 2024 when we filmed this, in terms of what we might write, and how they might think about this. So the moment we started actually designing the action and designing the events, and figuring out for ourselves what story we needed to tell within the Sekai Taikai, they were Yes-ding everything.
They were willing to go as big as we can go and our production obviously has limits. We're a television show that needs to come in on a schedule. [Laughs] Some of these things you want to have the 40 long nights that they had to shoot [in] one episode of Game of Thrones, maybe more. But we don't have that luxury, so we have to be scrappy. We have to be efficient. Everybody has to be well choreographed and well rehearsed. We don't have time to do that on the day.
Not only are we thankful and lucky to have that stunt team, but our actors are game for all of that. They come in on the weekends, they stay late, they come in early, they use their lunch hours to go to the dojo that we keep at the stages which, a senshi in his own right, Master Tony training them just round the clock, there is stunt action happening. And when the cameras roll, it's the opportunity to hopefully present something new, and present something unexpected, and present something really cinematic, that was everyone's goal.
Cobra Kai's Hayden Schlossberg On Seeing The Evolution Of The Cast's Physical Training
"You can play out whole scenes with the actual actors without doubling them."
Having now seen them grow up through the show - seeing them now when they're coming in, they're learning all these techniques. How is it for you guys? How rewarding is it for you to see, 'Oh my God, some of these things that they are learning now is becoming so much easier for them.' I love that we have a lot of actors that, of course, they can act, that's great. But they really seem to learn all these fighting styles very naturally. Talk about that, as we get a little sentimental for the final season.
Hayden Schlossberg: Absolutely, yeah, it is an amazing feeling. There's so many feelings that you have when you see these actors get better at martial arts season by season, all culminating in this final season, where they're all at their best. Some of them are more athletic than others, but all of them pretty much started with no experience in this world. So to see by season 6, this journey that they've been on, and seeing these fight sequences and the skills that they have, remembering back to the first season, where you would have to hide certain aspects of performance and use stunt doubles. Now you can play out whole scenes with the actual actors without doubling them. It's an amazing feeling.
On the sentimental side, you realize this journey that you've been on, it's something that's really special. We've made movies before, all three of us, and this is something that you really only get on a hit show that goes on for multiple seasons, and you see this evolution, and you know it's something that's just right there in front of you. You're just like, 'Oh my God, did you just see what so and so did?' Whether it's someone like Mary Mouser, who, in another world, could have probably never had a fight sequence in anything in her career, now being at a place where she's just embraced the martial arts so much and the practice and the training so much that she could be doing these amazing things that you never would have seen [in] season one. You can't help but feel her own excitement on these new skills that she's learned on the show, but also just not sentimentally, just as filmmakers and creators, it's just awesome to now have these resources and to have actors who are able to take things to the next level.
There's moments with Tanner [Buchanan], who's one of our more athletic actors on the show that are as amazing as anything we've seen. He's gotten to that place. I feel like we're Stallone and Schwarzenegger got where, 'Wow, you could use him in some amazing ways,' and it just leads to a great product and amazing vibes on the set.
Cobra Kai Has Proper Satisfying Arcs For The Characters Back Home Before Series Finale
"Some get more real estate than others, but for all of them, we're bringing to some form of conclusion."
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From what we know about part 2, we know that we're not going to spend a lot of time with the characters that are back home. Is it fair to say for people who will be reading this before part 2 comes out, that we will maybe get a little bit more of them in part 3 of giving them their concluding arcs before we wrap up the series?
Jon Hurwitz: All of the characters for the final 10 episodes that you're seeing, there's the middle 5 and the back 5. We have an enormous cast. We have probably somewhere between 15-25 characters that you're emotionally invested in one way or another. We have these final 10 episodes. we have the middle 5 that are coming out November 15, and then the final 5 [that] we have to land the story for probably 25 different characters. Some get more real estate than others, but for all of them, we're bringing to some form of conclusion and leaving them hopefully in places where maybe you're able to see some of these characters again in the future. But yeah, even though not everyone is at the Sekai Taikai, you will see more from those characters as well.
About Cobra Kai Season 6 Part 2
At the Sekai Taikai, Miyagi-Do faces new challenges and old enemies as they fight to become world champions — can they stay united as internal rivalries bubble back to the surface? Cobra Kai is written and executive produced by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg via their production company, Counterbalance Entertainment. Will Smith, James Lassiter and Caleeb Pinkett executive produce for Westbrook Studios along with Susan Ekins in association with Sony Pictures Television. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka also serve as executive producers.
Be sure to check out Screen Rant's Cobra Kai season 6, part 1 interviews, with more part 2 interviews coming soon:
Cobra Kai
season 6 - part 2 starts streaming on Netflix this Friday, November 15, with part 1 currently available, followed by part 3 in 2025.
Set decades after the events of the Karate Kid franchise, Cobra Kai shifts gears and puts viewers into the perspective of a former rival/antagonist, Johnny Lawrence. In his 50s and down on his luck, a chance encounter with a bullied young man leads Johnny back to Karate. Agreeing to help him, Johnny takes the opportunity to revive his former home, the Cobra Kai dojo - becoming a refuge for outcast teens.
Cast Tanner Buchanan , Xolo Mariduena , Mary Mouser , Connor Murdock , Ralph Macchio , Nichole Brown , Jacob Bertrand , Griffin Santopietro , William Zabka
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