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Does the 'Cobra Kai' Cast Really Know Each Other?

How much does the cast of 'Cobra Kai' know about each other after five seasons of filming their hit Netflix series? Peyton List, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni DeCenzo, Xolo Maridueña, Ralph Macchio, Mary Mouser and William Zabka find out in this latest episode of Vanity Fair Game Show. Season 5 of Cobra Kai is available to stream September 9 on Netflix Director: Jackie Phillips Director of Photography: Grant Bell Editor: Jordan Calig Celebrity Talent: Xolo Maridueña, Jacob Bertrand, Mary Mouser, Gianni Decenzo, Peyton List, Ralph Macchio, William Zabka Line Producer: Jen Santos Associate Producer: Clarissa Davis Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi and Peter Brunette Production Coordinator: Carolina Wachokier Talent Booker: Mica Medoff Camera Operator: Nick Massey, Lucas Vilicich Audio: Paul Cornett Production Assistant: Phillip Arliss, Devin Beckwith Art Department: Leah Waters-Katz Post Production Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi Supervising Editor: Kameron Key Assistant Editor: Benjamin Harowitz

Released on 09/10/2022

Transcript

Can you do that?

Can you sing that song?

I actually didn't.

I auditioned singing the song,

and I didn't even book the commercial singing the song.

Well do it now for everybody.

♪ I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener ♪

[all laughing]

I hope that gets widely taken out of context,

and blasted everywhere.

[upbeat music]

Hi, I'm Peyton List.

I'm Jacob Scott-Thomas Bertrand.

I'm Gianni DeCenzo.

I'm Xolo Mariduena.

I'm Ralph Macchio.

I am Mary Mauser.

I'm William Zabka.

And we're the cast of Cobra Kai,

and we're gonna see how well we know each other

with Vanity Fair.

Which pop star did I once get close to at a concert?

A pop star, come on.

I'll go with Taylor Swift

The Jonas Brothers.

[Ralph] Which one?

Name them.

All of them.

Any one of them.

I was definitely one of the Jonas brothers.

I was gonna say Taylor swift.

Carrie Underwood.

Oh yeah.

I'm going to say Ariana.

Okay.

You know what's funny

is I didn't write this one down

but I did grab Joe Jonas's foot

at a Jonas Brothers' concert.

[laughing]

He told me, know all about it

But I wrote down Rihanna,

I got close to Rihanna.

[gasping]

Oh.

I was about to cry.

I don't know if it was a dream

but she was right next to me at Florence in the Machine.

Was it a dream or a real thing?

I don't... I can't...

I was so nervous.

It was real,

but I think it gets the point,

cause I almost wrote down Joe Jonas.

I'm impressed.

I didn't say it.

Who was I most start struck by?

Joe Jonas.

[laughter]

His foot specifically.

Wow, that's like your whole life.

Who were you most struck struck by?

Give me a year.

I know

She doesn't even have an answer yet though.

Ralph Macchio and Billy Zabka.

[laughter]

Okay.

I have a couple, so I'll write down one.

Charlize Theron.

Taylor Swift.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

Gwyneth... Goop, Brett?

[laughter]

I don't know.

Julia Roberts.

I was gonna say Julia Roberts!

Oh really?

I'm sure you were...

It's Julia Roberts. Is it?

I wish, I have not met her, but if I,

You would be starstruck

I would.

You would be totally starstruck

I would.

Mary was right.

I wrote down Taylor Swift.

No, but I get something for the previous

Taylor Swift call out.

No way.

It's all good.

That's just me.

I've never called you William before,

but William will you take the hot seat?

Yes, Tory.

[laughing]

Okay. What is my go-to workout?

I think it's your..

[Speaker] The bands!

Yeah.

Yeah. The arm bands

Yeah, the elastic arm bands.

I'm actually going to say

it's the in mirror hair zhuzh.

That's a good one.

The hair zhuzh is good,

that goes with the elastic bands.

Did you pick one?

I don't know.

Some sort of like beach workout.

Beachbody Workout.

Ab routine.

Yes. That's right!

The abs of steel.

You guys were right.

It's bands.

It's the bands.

I've never seen you do that.

Here's a good one. Hold on.

I gotta write this down now.

I don't speak these fluently,

but I know all the bad words in them.

What languages do I speak?

English.

A little bit of Spanish.

Un poquito.

Yes!

I'm gonna say Deutsche.

Czechoslovakian.

Everybody's getting one.

I'm going to say German.

You got it!

Yeah.

So I speak a little Bulgarian, Czech, German, English

little Spanish, and very good pig Latin

[Gibberish]

Oh, that was way too good.

Okay. Mary, can you please get in the hot seat?

Yes sir.

What is my all time favorite Disney movie?

Beauty and the Beast.

I would lean Lady and the Tramp!

Yeah Lady and the Tramp.

I would've guessed Hocus Pocus.

Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast

Lady and the Tramp.

Beauty and the Beast,

I'm gonna go with that.

It was Beauty and the Beast.

So we all get a point.

Yeah. The three boys down there!

I don't even feel like I know the answer to this,

but what do I spend the most money on?

Your dog.

Gas to Disneyland.

Gas to Disneyland? My Chemical Romance tickets

Yeah. Ralph was there for that meltdown day.

All right, so what's your guess?

Your dog.

All right, dog.

Postmates.

Black paint.

You're not gonna say dog,

I'll go dog.

Dog is wrong.

I have one more idea.

Airbnbs because you travel so much

Yeah. That's right.

Instant change.

The realistic answer, yeah.

It's hotel rooms,

but I put coffee

so I guess Postmates is the closest to that.

[ding]

Coffee?

Good job.

All right Ralph.

Passing the Baton to dad.

Where did I meet my wife, Phyllis?

At a, on a dance floor.

Bar slash dance floor

Through your cousin

Getting there.

I feel like I've heard this story

that you guys played like spin the bottle

or something at some birthday party.

No, no, no.

We have not kissed to this day.

[laughing]

You met her when you were really, really young.

And then you got together later on in life.

You met her at a house party, in the basement of party.

It was a birthday.

Bar area in the basement of a house party

Yeah. And there's underage drinking.

Near a trampoline.

Red solo cups.

It was your cousins or her cousin birthday party.

It was in Long Island.

Billy is right. It was in my grandmother's basement.

There was a 16th birthday party for my cousin.

[ding]

Okay.

Okay.

We did date when we were teenagers

and then a couple years later

we came back and it's been happily ever since.

How was that?

Okay good job with the team play.

How old was I in the first karate kid?

21? 22?

Yes. To both, but I'll tell you what it was.

21 and then you turned 22.

Boom.

Oh.

[ding]

Wait you were older than me?

By decades.

Wow. They know me.

They really, really know me.

The best Ralph.

Xolo, would you like to take a seat?

Yes.

In the hot seat?

Another please, mister.

All right guys.

What do my parents do for a living?

Well, your dad's a professor at a ton of colleges,

or maybe I shouldn't answer this one.

Yeah, no, that's cheating.

The podcast, best friend.

Your mom was a DJ, wasn't she?

Yeah.

She used to be a DJ.

And your dad's also social worker, too.

Doesn't he work with prison kids?

Yeah yeah yeah!

Good job.

They're rock stars!

Billy got it right.

[ding]

Mary got it right.

Jacob got it right.

Alright, how many tattoos do I have?

Three.

I wanna say three.

Four?

Unless you've told me would never know.

Each one is an individual one.

Even if it's.

On a different body part?

Yeah.

But it is the same thing

It's still on his body

The sleeve is your body.

But what if it goes, I'll just say four then.

Yeah, four.

[Speaker] Four.

[Speaker] Four?

I would count that as three.

So if I have two words..

[Speaker] That's two different tattoos.

Yeah.

But they go together

But you arguably could have gotten them separately.

Each letter is its own tattoo.

[laughing]

Jacob and Mary got it correct, four.

[ding]

Gianni, can you switch with me?

Probably!

This one might be a little bit tricky.

What is my favorite onset snack?

Diet Coke.

My God.

What else would it be?

[ding]

It's diet Coke.

You have like seven a day.

Well, don't not don't out me!

This is gonna be tricky.

I thought I was being slick.

Yes, I drink at least,

seven is being conservative.

I have a whole thing of diet Cokes in my fridge

just specifically for Gianni, I don't even like Diet Coke.

I clear 'em out. I clear 'em out.

Okay.

What is my most memorable moment of filming?

Getting your arm broken by me.

That was my least favorite moment.

I wanna argue it's the binary brothers

like YouTube videos you guys did.

That's a good one.

It's your bow staff.

Wasn't it a bow staff you had?

I had the commas.

Wow, what an impression I left on you.

It wasn't my favorite moment.

It would've been your favorite moment.

My favorite moment is when

you're getting hit against this,

you're tied up with the duct tape.

No, my favorite was we,

you and me were

we were doing choreography

I raise my leg right over you

as soon as your head came up.

Came up and he kicked me in the head.

I thought I broke your neck!

That's your favorite moment?

That's my most memorable moment.

Yeah, no I just remember it the most

cause I have nightmares.

I thought I broke the Karate Kid.

It hurt a little bit.

I know. I was like, oh my God, am I fired?

It was limited amount of rehearsal time,

I think it was like 1, 2, 3

and I should have been down on two,

but I came up on three and [clap]

My legs are too long.

It takes too long to get over.

No but you had an impressive hook kick, I might add.

That was the first time

I saw Dimitri's level of martial arts

and I'm like I'm keeping this

even in the tournament.

That was great stuff.

Jacob, you wanna close this out

by sitting in the hot seat?

I guess.

What was my first ever onscreen role?

I want to say it's that Claratin commercial

where you were like,

weren't you like the claratin box?

It was a commercial.

It was a commercial.

I'm trying to think what every stereotypical

young actor commercial.

It is a very stereotypical.

Car commercial.

No.

Wendy's?

No.

Was it like a toy?

How old were you? Are you allowed to give us a hint?

I was like, I was five

You were five.

Was is Coors Banquet?

Verizon.

No, it was a Oscar Meyer commercial.

Oh, you did mention that.

Can you do that? Can you sing that song?

I actually didn't,

I auditioned singing the song

and I didn't even book the commercial singing the song.

Do it now for everybody.

♪ I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener ♪

I don't know.

That's funny.

I hope that gets widely taken out of context

and blasted everywhere.

What is my hidden talent?

Not talking, because we've never seen it.

Not moving around.

Like being completely still.

Wait, wait this isn't isn't hidden disses

Is it hitting your marks?

No.

He would hide that.

It's definitely not memorizing your line.

You play the guitar.

Do you, you never talk about that?

Hidden.

Actually wait, woodworking.

I think it's woodworking

cause you built your own cabinets,

you built your own table.

Oh wow.

That's legit.

Yeah. This is my table.

Yeah. It's like four screws.

He built his whole place.

And in the bathroom you have,

he did all the electrical too.

So you have to turn on the light

in the bathroom for all the rest of the house to.

Yeah. If you turn off the bathroom light,

the TV turns off.

No seriously,

whenever we're playing video games,

he's like don't turn off the light in the bathroom please.

It wasn't perfect but we got it done.

Then I didn't have anything written down.

I just wanna hear you guys say what my talents were

At this point.

I feel like I know as much about any of you

as I do like any significant person

in my life.

Family, lifelong friends.

I think I it's been half a decade

For us it's been a little bit longer than that.

A decade and a half.

A nice 10, 15 years.

40, no 30.

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[Everyone] Thank you, Vanity Fair!

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