Zabka’s pop culture reputation for golden boy bullies just begging for the kicks to the face, literal or otherwise, that inevitably landed in the final act. It’s a legacy he’s fine with, he insisted on the set of “Cobra Kai.” The 10-episode series, debuting May 2 on YouTube Red, the video portal’s paid streaming service, picks up the “Karate Kid” story more than three decades later. But in a locker room at a college gym here, the cheers from an ersatz karate tournament echoing outside like glories past, it didn’t take much prompting for Mr.
Zabka to break down the injustice of Johnny’s infamy: There was on the beach. The unprovoked at the Halloween dance. And the fact that in the film’s, Johnny was “fighting square and clean” until his demented sensei ordered him to. “So I never saw him as an [expletive],” he concluded, a revisionist theme that also has been espoused in and in Mr. Zabka’s own memorable arc on.
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