Alicia Hannah-Kim’s latest role as the first female sensei in Netflix’s may give observers the false impression that she’s an overnight success.But before her likeness was wrapped around a building in the famed Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, she was waiting tables, auditioning, and dreaming of one day being the representation she lacked growing up in her native Australia.Hannah-Kim, who is of Korean descent, recalls her difficult journey climbing that Hollywood ladder which includes having to turn down stereotypical roles, rejection, and thoughts of giving up before she got the call for Cobra Kai.“Being an ‘overnight success’ is such a charming concept and so wholly untrue in my case.
I have endless respect and solidarity with actors who are out there self-taping and auditioning into what feels like oblivion because I have been in those trenches for years,” Hannah-Kim tells Deadline. “The rejection is painful and personal in a way that’s difficult to explain to someone with a conventional desk job.
With acting, it’s your whole being on the line— your voice, your face, your essence, your body… so it really hurts to digest a ‘no’.
You have to be vulnerable enough to try and then resilient in defeat .…it’s so masochistic and then of course, when you’re hired you feel like you’re flying.”Playing Kim Da-Eun was something that appealed to Hannah-Kim as a practitioner of yoga and Muay Thai, as well as the impact she would have in this world of karate in the Valley that is dominated by men—even if she wasn’t fully aware of who Kim was during the audition process.“I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for because there was so much secrecy but her entrance alone was so epic I knew that Kim Da-Eun was someone special.
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