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In an exclusive interview, Sean Kanan told Looper that “The Karate Kid Part III” taught him a tough lesson out of the gate, but he also learned there was an upside. “The first [lesson] was when I was lying in bed with a 15-inch wound on my abdomen and staples. There were no flowers in the room, no card; there was a call from the director saying, ‘You got 10 days to get back to work or you lose the part,’ so that was a bit of a rude awakening,” Kanan recalled. “I learned pretty quickly that this is a business, and your value is completely conditional upon the value that you can bring to the business. But what I also learned was that it didn’t jade me. It didn’t sour me and cause me to be cynical, so that was a good lesson.”
One thing Kanan said he didn’t bring with him to “Cobra Kai” was any worries about reprising Mike because of his “Karate Kid Part III” injury: “It wasn’t really on my mind. I did a huge martial arts scene on ‘The Bold and Beautiful,’ which was much more violent, and I did all my own stunts on that,” Kanan said. “It wasn’t on my mind other than the nostalgic aspect of realizing that when I got hurt, it was playing this character. There wasn’t any trepidation or anxiety on my part doing it because I’ve done dozens of fight scenes over the years, but I was aware that it was while playing Mike Barnes that it happened.”
All five seasons of “Cobra Kai” are streaming exclusively on Netflix.
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