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The cast of 'Cobra Kai,' including Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List, Jacob Bertrand and Gianni DeCenzo, as well as creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor ahead of the show's sixth and final season. The cast opened up about the incredible journey they've been on with the series, as well as reflected on growing up together and their tight friendships behind-the-scenes. Plus, the creators shared why they chose to split season six intro three parts. Part one of season six hits Netflix July 18.

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00:00You have this special bond that's never going to kind of go away,

00:03which I feel like a lot of other shows might talk about,

00:05but it's really strong and really true on this one.

00:09They're lying.

00:09Yeah, they're lying. We're telling the truth.

00:11Cobra Kai is coming to an end with season six.

00:14Ahead of the premiere of the final season,

00:16the cast and creators spoke to The Hollywood Reporter

00:19all about saying goodbye to the fan-favorite show.

00:22I mean, you guys have been on such a journey with this show.

00:24It first premiered on YouTube Red in 2018,

00:27it made the transition to Netflix,

00:28and then became this huge Netflix hit.

00:30When you look back on just your whole journey with the show,

00:33what comes to mind for you?

00:34Anytime anyone talks about the YouTube Red days and it going to Netflix,

00:38I think back of a conversation I had with Sholo driving to his house

00:43where we were just sitting in the car going,

00:45dude, wouldn't that be crazy if it went to Netflix?

00:47Ah, that'll never happen.

00:49Yeah, that's...

00:50And now you can choose his face on your Netflix account.

00:54Yeah.

00:55I think Tanner and I had the same conversation at one point,

00:57just being like,

00:58where do you think it would go?

00:59Well, I mean, there's...

01:00And we could...

01:01Hope...

01:02But Netflix...

01:03Netflix?

01:03No, don't even get your hopes up.

01:06But it's...

01:07I mean, it's crazy.

01:07It's thanks to the fans that we get to be here.

01:10There was a little bit of fairy dust sprinkled on this show from the beginning.

01:12You know, we pitched to YouTube Red, which would eventually become YouTube Premium,

01:17almost as a practice pitch because they were such a new emerging platform

01:22that we couldn't really imagine the show we had in our brains being on our laptops.

01:29We had Netflix pie-in-the-sky ideas.

01:32But it ended up being a blessing because they leaned in fully to our creative

01:36and some of our untraditional storytelling to really create the template for what that show would become.

01:41At the time, even on YouTube, it felt really big.

01:44We made two seasons, we made three seasons with YouTube,

01:46and you felt like you were doing something that, like, a huge amount of people all loved.

01:51But in our personal lives, most people didn't know it that well.

01:54It was one of those things where online, you saw big numbers and you saw a lot of comments.

01:58But, you know, you know, the two of us are parents,

02:01and it wasn't the kind of thing where, like, you know,

02:02the other parents at the school all knew what it was.

02:05The moment it went on Netflix, everyone knew the show.

02:08Not only did, like, every parent who grew up loving The Karate Kid discover this new Netflix show

02:13that just showed up that we'd been working on for multiple years now,

02:17but their children had seen it too.

02:19So to see that rise and that sort of just change in our lives was really wonderful.

02:24The Sakai Tai Kai is the most prestigious karate tournament in modern martial arts history.

02:29For over a century, fighters from across the globe have gathered every two years

02:33to compete for the title of World's Best.

02:35The cast also opened up about their friendships off-camera and growing up on the show together.

02:40It feels like these are all our friends from middle school and high school,

02:44and now we're going to different colleges.

02:46But it's pals that will have, that'll be at our weddings.

02:51Like, these are people that are, I mean, if y'all get married, I don't know.

02:55I'd, like...

02:56Shona's like, none for me, thanks, but...

02:58If y'all get married, I'll be there.

03:00I don't know if Tender's ever going to find love.

03:03No, but...

03:04But, yeah, it's like, these are...

03:06We're inseparable now.

03:07Like, after you guys start punching each other and kicking and rolling around...

03:12Everyone just growing up with each other is...

03:14I don't know, yeah, it's true.

03:15It's like you have this special bond that's ever going to kind of go away.

03:18Yeah.

03:19Which I feel like a lot of other shows might talk about, but...

03:21But it's really strong and really true on this one.

03:24They're lying.

03:25Yeah, they're lying. We're telling the truth.

03:27The final season is set to premiere in three five-episode parts,

03:30with part one debuting July 18th,

03:33followed by part two on November 28th,

03:35and the finale event coming sometime in 2025.

03:38Why did you decide to split up the final season into these three mini-seasons, as you've called them?

03:43Once we realized we had more story to tell than a ten-episode season

03:47would give us, we talked with Sony and Netflix about doing more than that.

03:51We wanted to bring it in for a landing,

03:53but we needed more than one season and probably less than two seasons,

03:56so we ended up at this number, a nice round number of 15.

04:00But once we had that number, it ended up being perfect,

04:03because we write every single season of the show in two five-episode story arcs.

04:08We always bring things to a head by episode five.

04:10You kind of round out one story and begin telling the aftermath of, you know, what that wrought.

04:15So that gave us the ability to kind of think of this in a three-act structure,

04:19using each of those acts to tell a three-act story within.

04:23So you end up with these kind of bombastic, you know,

04:25three parts of this final season that are all completely different and yet interconnected,

04:30that have all the same feels that you'd expect from any other season of Cobra Kai,

04:35with rises and falls and cliffhangers and tragedy and explosiveness,

04:38and it ended up being, you know, perfect that they agreed that the three-episode drop

04:43fit within, you know, their desires as well.

04:45For more on Cobra Kai, head to THR.com.

04:48For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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