Cobra Kai Season 6 Update & Obliterated Interview with Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg
0Given the monumental success of Cobra Kai, it’s easy to forget that Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald, and Hayden Schlossberg got their starts in the R-rated comedy realm, namely with films in the Harold & Kumar, American Pie, and Hot Tub Time Machine series. After five seasons of the wildly charming and family-friendly Karate Kid show, with one more on the way, the trio are returning to raunchy drug and alcohol fueled debauchery with their new project, Obliterated.
The new Netflix seres focuses on an elite special forces team that thinks its thwarted a deadly threat to Las Vegas. What does one do after completing a difficult and dangerous mission in Sin City? Party of course, and the team goes big in that respect. Trouble is, the bomb they deactivated turns out to be a fake and now they’ve got to get back to work while intoxicated, hangry, and feeling the pressure of being responsible for countless lives in Vegas.
While that synopsis likely tees up how things could get wild in Obliterated, there’s no way to fully convey how big Hurwitz, Heald, and Schlossberg swing with this one. For instance, it only takes a single episode for C. Thomas Howell’s character, the eccentric bomb tech Hagerty, to show himself to the world. During an interview with the trio celebrating the show’s November 30th release, Hurwitz walked me through what it traditionally costs to make something like that happen and why they wound up going a different route:
“C. Thomas Howell, who you get to see quite a bit of in the first episode of the show, it's the morning of, he's supposed to be filming that day, and we had spent $10,000 on a prosthetic for him to wear in his nether regions. He calls me that morning and he's like, ‘You know what? If I'm going for it, I should just go for it, right? I want to go for it. I don't need the prosthetic. I'll go all in.’ I was like, ‘That's great news. This is amazing. Ponyboy is gonna go full frontal on our show? Okay, here we go!’”
That right there is just one example of Hurwitz, Schlossberg, Heald and the rest of team Obliterated not holding back when bringing this story to screen. To hear more about Netflix’s no-limits approach to supporting this series, watch my conversation with Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald in this video, which also includes a Cobra Kai Season 6 tease!
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