Cobra Kai star reveals Sean Connery inspired acting career after playing tennis together
dailyrecord.co.ukThe star of hit Netflix series Cobra Kai has revealed how Sir Sean Connery inspired his acting career and they then became good friends.
Martin Kove, who went on to star as the villain in the 1984 Hollywood blockbuster The Karate Kid, has told how the James Bond legend first helped him find his feet as an actor.
Kove, who has reprised his role as the sadistic John Kreese in the TV series sequel to the original Karate Kid trilogy, said: “I was Sean Connery ’s stand-in in 1972 when I was still acting in New York for a movie called The Anderson Tapes. “I was like a glorified extra.
I learned one thing. I learned how to listen by watching Sean Connery. Then, probably 15 years later, I’d done The Karate Kid, I was a little more established."I bumped into him on the tennis court and said, ‘Do you remember me?’ and he said, ‘No, but do you want to hit the ball?’“I said, ‘Sure.’ We were hitting the ball and he was terrible.
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