Did Cobra Kai use the original actors?
Did Cobra Kai use the original actors?
Casting. In season 1, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprised their respective Karate Kid roles of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence. Additional Karate Kid actors included Randee Heller, who reprised her role as Lucille LaRusso (Daniel’s mother), and Martin Kove, who revived his role as John Kreese.
Is the guy in Cobra Kai the same actor?
Many of the familiar players from from the Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do dojos are back on our screens including Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
Are the characters in Cobra Kai the same as Karate Kid?
If The Next Karate Kid comes into play, it opens a large cast of characters although they have no relation to anyone in Cobra Kai as far as we know. The only character that crosses over from the Miyagi-Daniel-san trilogy is Mr. Miyagi.
Did they change the actors in Cobra Kai?
And of course, Daniel and Johnny are still played by the same actors, Ralph Macchio and Billy Zabka. Martin Kove came back to play John Kreese. To my knowledge, all the characters who appeared in previous Karate Kid films are being played in Cobra Kai by the same actors.