{"id":73891,"date":"2024-02-06T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/xolo-mariduena-says-cobra-kais-final-season-is-intense-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:40:53","slug":"xolo-mariduena-says-cobra-kais-final-season-is-intense-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/xolo-mariduena-says-cobra-kais-final-season-is-intense-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Xolo Maridue\u00f1a Says &#8216;Cobra Kai&#8217;s Final Season Is &#8216;Intense&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/cobra-kai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cobra Kai<\/em><\/a><i><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>is pulling out all the stops for their upcoming sixth and final season!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ET&#8217;s Ash Crossan spoke with series star\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/xolo-mariduena\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xolo Maridue\u00f1a<\/a><span>\u00a0at the 51st Saturn Awards on Sunday, where he was honored with the award for Best Performance By a Younger Performer in a Movie for his starring role in the 2023 comic book flick <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/blue-beetle\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blue Beetle<\/em><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The celebration was a short one for\u00a0Maridue\u00f1a, who had to head straight to the airport to get back to the <\/span><em><span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/em><span> set &#8212; but he did have time to dish on the final episodes of the<\/span><em><span> Karate Kid <\/span><\/em><span>spinoff series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It is back-breaking &#8212; it&#8217;s intense,&#8221; he shared. &#8220;I just know that everyone is gonna be super excited to see the season.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I feel like it is a great end chapter to this<\/span><em><span> Karate Kid<\/span><\/em><span> legacy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s such an honor to get to work with the OGs, of course, Ralph [Macchio] and Billy [Zabka], our Karate Kids, and to get to send them off is a pleasure.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Production on the final season was put on pause during last year&#8217;s SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/event\/strike\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strikes<\/a><span>, which also unfortunately impacted\u00a0Maridue\u00f1a&#8217;s ability to promote <\/span><em><span>Blue Beetle<\/span><\/em><span>. However, the young star says he felt the love all the same &#8212; both from Sunday&#8217;s awards recognition from the sci-fi community, as well as the film&#8217;s fans, better known as the &#8220;Blue Beetle Battalion.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was really so ready for this movie to be shown to the world, and then when I wasn&#8217;t necessarily able to speak as loudly as I wanted to when the movie came out it was a little tough,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;But the support of not only the Blue Beetle Battalion, but like, people from Los Angeles where I freaking grew up, kids who look like me growing up, getting to be in the theater with them really made my heart so warm and full.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It made me realize that the movie is more than just the opening weekend,&#8221; he added. &#8220;To get to share this [Saturn Award] with the people who made the movie is the highest honor. It really wouldn&#8217;t have been able to be done without them, so I can&#8217;t wait to take some pictures, do some FaceTimes, you know.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Season 1-5 of <\/span><em><span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/em><span> are streaming now on Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/xolo-mariduena-teases-cobra-kai-final-season-its-going-to-be-back-breaking-and-intense-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobra Kai\u00a0is pulling out all the stops for their upcoming sixth and final season! ET&#8217;s Ash Crossan spoke with series star\u00a0Xolo Maridue\u00f1a\u00a0at the 51st Saturn Awards on Sunday, where he was honored with the award for Best Performance By a Younger Performer in a Movie for his starring role in the 2023 comic book flick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,6379,174,20,24,6378],"class_list":{"0":"post-73891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-cobra-kai","10":"tag-entertainment-tonight","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-xolo-mariduena"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}