Martin Kove talks about his return to the Cobra Kai series playing “Sensei John Kreese,” and shares stories from his first day back on the set. He explains why he was so excited to return to the character, the great growth and development audiences have been able to see in “Sensei Kreese,” and what it’s finally like to see his character celebrated! Martin a ... Show More
May 2022
Sweeping The Leg with Martin Kove
Martin Kove is Sensei John Kreese on “Cobra Kai” and the “Karate Kid” trilogy, and has a great story about how he landed the role in the first place! He talks about the casts’ initial reaction to the “Karate Kid” script and movie, his then-wife’s review of the Kreese character, b ... Show More
1h 1m
Jan 2022
Martin Kove of Cobra Kai talks about returning to the character John Kreese, years of wild acting stories and his new podcast on Uncut with Jay Cutler
Martin Kove joins Jay to talk about the success of Cobra Kai, and what prompted him to return to the character of John Kreese after 35 years. Martin also jokes about how the character affected his castings going forward (and shares a WILD story about changing a producer's mind) a ... Show More
40m 36s
Sep 2023
The Great Escape (1963) and Rocky III (1982)
For the latest episode of the Film Stories podcast, a war movie, a boxing movie, and a few problems in the making of both.
1963's The Great Escape was a film that director John Sturges couldn't initially get off the ground, and he needed his success with The Magnificent Seven to ... Show More
56m 11s
Jun 2024
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ and the Will Smith Resurgence. Plus, Viggo Mortensen!
Sean and Amanda talk about the successes and shortcomings of the two biggest movies at this week’s box office: Will Smith’s return to franchise moviemaking in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ (1:00), and ‘The Watchers,’ Ishana Night Shyamalan’s directorial debut (43:00). Then, they briefl ... Show More
1h 41m
Aug 2021
The Suicide Squad with James Gunn
And we’re back! Welcome to season two of Script Apart – a podcast about the first draft secrets of great movies. Each episode, a brilliant screenwriter revisits their initial screenplay for what became a beloved movie, discussing what changed, what didn’t and why – from first dra ... Show More
45m 50s
Mar 2024
Dunkirk (2017) and Dangerous Minds (1995)
With Christopher Nolan now an Oscar-winner, this particular episode of Film Stories begins by zipping back to 2017, when he had a his first serious drive-by of the Academy Awards. That'd be with Dunkirk, the first time he told a true story on film. It took him a long time to be i ... Show More
56m 19s