Hilary Swank ultimately never reprised her Next Karate Kid character, Julie Pierce, on Cobra Kai. Here's why things didn't work out.

Hilary Swank's The Next Karate Kid character never made a cameo appearance in Netflix's Cobra Kai, but there could be a much ...

But I was wrong. The final five episodes offered a thrilling, satisfying coda to this chapter of The Karate Kid franchise, but Julie Pierce was the one prominent legacy character not to appear in ...

Hilary Swank’s character happens to be the granddaughter of his commanding officer, Lieutenant Jack Pierce. Miyagi takes ...

The actress starred as Julie Pierce in 1994’s The Next Karate Kid. “She just didn’t want to do it for whatever reason,” Macchio told the publication about Swank joining Cobra Kai.

Heading into the final season of Cobra Kai, Julie was really the only major Karate Kid character who hadn’t appeared in the show, and fans have spent years asking for her to be included in some way.

fans have been clamoring for Swank to return to her role from the film The Next Karate Kid. In that film, she played Julie Pierce, a new protege of Mr. Miyagi. As the seasons went on and more and ...

Perhaps one day, she'll return to the Miyagiverse. #CobraKai" Hilary Swank as Julie Pierce and Pat Morita as Miyagi in The Next Karate Kid (1994). Image courtesy of Sony Pictures I’ve been ...