Cobra Kai stunned fans with a shocking death during the second part of season 6 — and Alicia Hannah-Kim is opening up about how the cast reacted to the “unprecedented” episode and how it will affect her character, Sensei Kim, going forward. “We were all shocked when we read that script,” Hannah-Kim, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly about the episode 10 twist. “And then actually the filming of it was so awful.
” Warning: Spoilers below for season 6 part 2 of Cobra Kai. The surprise came in part 2’s final moments when Kwon Jae-Sung ( Brandon H. Lee ) and Axel Kovacevic ( Patrick Luwis ) engaged in the Sekai Taikai brawl.
After a knockdown, drag-out fight between all the dojos, the duo came face to face in a showdown that ended with Axel falling on a knife and ultimately dying from the stab wound. The scene was a turning point in the series for both fans and the cast. “We all love Brandon so much and just to see him lying there was really deeply emotional, but it just suddenly felt like Cobra Kai got really real in that sense, in that moment because there’s fight scenes, people get hurt, but people get back up again.
But this is just irreparable damage,” Hannah-Kim told Us. “That’s it. He’s dead, so it was shocking.
That’s a final cut and call there. And it was really sad.” As for her character, the actress believes Kwon’s death will knock “some sense into” Kim going forward.
“I think you can walk the walk and talk the talk as much as you wan.