‘Cobra Kai’ villain Martin Kove allegedly bit costar Alicia Hannah-Kim

COBRA KAI Alum Martin Kove, known for having played the villain John Kreese in the Netflix series and the original Karate The film and its consequences, was “escorted” for a fans event on Sunday, after having bitten the former Costar Alicia Hannah-Kim, according to a police report.

The document, examined by Weekly entertainmentNoted that Hannah-Kim, who portrayed Kim Da-Eun on more than a dozen episodes of the nomile martial arts series in Emmy, saw Kove when the two appeared at the Washington State Summer Con in Puyallup. She stopped to say hello to him, and it was then that he grabbed him and bit her, she told the police.

“I passed in front of Martin Kove, I hit him on the shoulder and said hello and he turned to grab my arm and bit hardly hardly blood,” said Hannah-Kim in a handwritten statement to the police. “I joined myself and withdrew, then he grabbed my arm again to kiss him.”

The actress said that she withdrew to her table and said to her manager as well as her husband, Sebastian Roche.

“I had visible teeth marks and bruises and immediate pain,” she continued in her declaration. “We approached Martin in the green room later (30 minutes) and he was furious and indignant and visibly angry when I said calmly to bite me. He insisted that he bite me for pleasure.”

Kove told the police that he “bored”, the officer who submitted the written report. The officer told the actor that he had done was illegal. Kove “admitted to having bitten the arm of Alicia and said that he had done it out of joke and he thought he was funny, and they play fighting all the time COBRA KAIAnd he didn’t think it was a big problem, “noted the officer.

Finally, Hannah-Kim spoke to Kove and he apologized, according to the officer’s report.

While the actress chose not to file a complaint against Kove, she filed a report and her injury was documented in the event of future incidents, the officer wrote.

“I asked him if he wanted to provide a handwritten voluntary statement, but he refused and hugged his hand, he thanked me (just like his son) and he was escorted to Summer Con”, according to the officer.

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Weekly entertainment contacted representatives for Kove and Hannah-Kim.

The character of Kove de Kreee has long been a villain in the universe of Karate Kid, appearing in three films and more recently on Netflix Reboot Series COBRA KAIthat the character joined in season 1 of episode 6 in an unavnforced appearance. Kove has finally become a major character and appeared in 57 episodes, according to IMDB.

“The Kreese at the start of season 6 was the most poisonous version of Kreese that we saw,” the co-creator of the series Jon Hurwitz told Ew in February. “All bets were taken this year with his hatred towards Johnny and Daniel. He was volatile, and this anger was boiled by bringing him the knife to the tournament – which led him to fall and his own student is killed …. He tries to know where to go from there.

Hannah-Kim played the formidable Sensei Kim Da-Eun on the series, which is in partnership with Kreese that she regrets when the student is killed.

“She is a strategist and she weighs all her options all the time,” said the actress to EW in an interview published in November 2024. “Kim and Kreese’s relationship is so complicated. She is grateful to him for this last friendship, where he really protected her and was a mentor figure for her”, ”

She continued: “What is disturbing for Kim is when there is a loss of control. Kreese does not have the same fear, and she therefore begins to feel this instability. Of course, it becomes refoulement in episode 10, and that is when the consequences really hit the fan.”

The sixth and last season of COBRA KAI was released in February on Netflix.