Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald, and Hayden Schlossberg discuss efforts to get Hilary Swank to appear and why it didn't happen.

Cobra Kai pulled off something few legacy sequels manage to do, reignite the heart of a beloved franchise and bring back nearly every major player from the original Karate Kid films. But, one character never made it back into the

Cobra Kai managed to reference many characters and story arcs from the Karate Kid movies that came before it, but it never brought back Julie Pierce, played by Hilary Swank in The Next Karate Kid. Series creators Josh Heald,