Actress Courtney Henggeler from “Cobra Kai” was about to leave Hollywood behind when she landed a role on the Netflix series.
“My husband told me I couldn’t stop smoking because we had our health insurance through SAG,” the 42-year-old actress, who has had several starring roles over the past decade, told Page Six.
“He told me, ‘Stay a little longer until we can figure out our next step in health insurance.'”
Luckily for Henggeler, a week later, she was chosen to star alongside Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in “Cobra Kai,” playing Macchio’s screen wife, Amanda LaRusso.
“I definitely made his name a word during the first two filming seasons,” he admitted about Macchio. “He was saying, ‘You can call me Ralph.’
However, Henggeler – who has appeared in series such as “The Big Bang Theory”, “Mom” and “Happy Ending” – confessed that he grew up to be Zabka’s character, the villain Johnny Lawrence, who he stole the heart in the original 1984 film
“Blond hair? The bad guy surfer? Come on! ”He said, adding,“ What can you do? The heart wants what it wants. Besides, he was probably six years old. “