The mohawk lives to see one other day! HL spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Jacob Bertrand about Eli's mohawk comeback in season 5, that brutal face-off with Kenny, and his hope of seeing his doppelganger in season 6.
Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz discovered himself middle stage on the mat as soon as once more in Cobra Kai season 5. He went head-to-head with Kenny within the Sekai Takai face-off and uncaged Hawk as soon as once more through the match. Nonetheless, Kenny obtained the higher hand when he used the soiled Silver Bullet on Eli, which left Eli gasping for air. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Jacob Bertrand, and he doesn’t assume this was the final time Eli and Kenny will meet on the mat.
“Eli doesn’t wish to lose. I’m assuming Eli would most likely need to rematch sooner or later with Kenny,” Jacob advised HollywoodLife. The actor admitted that he wished “there to be blood” after Kenny hit Eli to “elevate the stakes just a little bit or one thing.”
Although Eli uncaged Hawk through the battle, Jacob doesn’t assume Hawk is right here to remain. “I believe that ideology of like, I’m simply going to tug the swap, return to being Hawk in season 2, simply be ruthless… I imply, clearly, it didn’t actually work as a result of he nonetheless will get his ass kicked by Kenny. So I don’t know. I most likely would say no. I believe in my eyes that positively Eli’s taken over. I don’t know should you can actually return to how Hawk was in season 2 and season 3. I believe that a part of his life is sort of over,” Jacob mentioned.
Jacob admitted that he's “actually curious” about what’s going to occur with Kenny after Terry Silver was uncovered within the season 5 finale. “Kenny is simply this child who's so misplaced and has zero steerage. I’m actually curious what’s going to occur to him if there’s a season 6 as a result of he’s obtained to come back to phrases together with his sensei was main him astray. Robby was proper the entire time,” Jacob advised HollywoodLife.
He continued, “I don’t actually know if he’s going to be a villain anymore. I imply, I don’t know. I don’t know if the writers are planning on doing that, however I don’t assume Eli holds a grudge in direction of the child.”
One a part of Hawk that's possible right here to remain is the signature mohawk. After the mohawk was shaved off by Robby in season 4, Eli has since began to develop it again.
“There was a very huge discuss as a result of it’s like, okay, you narrow off his hair, so what’s going to occur? That is his energy,” Jacob defined. “How does that relate to Hawk? I believe on the finish, you understand he doesn’t want his hair, and he’s greater than that. On the identical time, his hair is basically cool. I believe he would simply develop it out as a result of I believe he seems to be sick with it. That was a giant a part of it. He’s not rising it out as a result of he wants it. It’s simply how he likes to look. It’s a part of my routine: gel up the hair, dye it each now and again, so I used to be actually glad to get it again.”
Jacob’s ready to continue to grow out the mohawk, perhaps even longer than final time. “Oh my god, it was like 9 inches. I imply, hey, each time I've it I am going from like 5’9 to love 6’6, so I've no complaints,” he mentioned.
The opposing karate groups of Cobra Kai didn’t simply meet on the mat. Additionally they confronted off on the waterpark in season 5, with Eli and Tory competing in a water slide battle. “For me, that was a lot enjoyable. I simply obtained to experience a waterslide like 20 occasions in at some point and receives a commission for it,” Jacob quipped.
The actor additionally revealed that his water slide was “truly twice as quick as Peyton’s, so we needed to cheat it within the vast after we come out. I needed to depend to 7 or 8 after which go down the slide, so I’d come out a break up second after Peyton [List]. I used to be truly means sooner.”
Netflix hasn’t greenlit Cobra Kai season 6 (but), nevertheless it’s virtually a certain factor. Jacob revealed what he wish to see in a sixth season. “Competing in a world match sounds freaking superior. I’d like to kick some individuals’s ass from like France or one thing. I don’t know. I believe it’d be humorous if there was a Hawk from France, like my doppelganger,” Jacob mentioned. All 5 seasons of Cobra Kai at the moment are streaming on Netflix.