Newly launched bodycam footage reveals “Cobra Kai” actor Alicia Hannah-Kim ripping into co-star Martin Kove after he bit her at a fan conference — and the 78-year-old’s weird “playful” excuse for the incident.
“You can’t chunk individuals, that isn’t okay,” a police officer is heard telling Kove exterior Washington State Summer season Con in Puyallup on Sunday after Hannah-Kim reported the incident, in keeping with video obtained by NBC Information.
“That’s assault!” Hannah-Kim, 37, added.
The officer advised Kove that it was “100%” as much as his co-star if she needed to press fees towards him, then requested what purpose he needed to chunk her.
“I actually apologize. I used to be simply taking part in as a result of we’re very playful collectively, and I bit down too onerous,” Kove defined, prompting Hannah-Kim to show towards the officer in shock over his reasoning.
“She’s acquired a mouth mark on her,” the officer replied.
The Australian actress then sternly advised Kove they “don’t play like that” and passionately advised him his actions made her “actually pissed.”
“You could have left a mark on my physique, which in your 80-year-old mind, you suppose is ‘play,’” she scolded him.
“Sir, have been you raised in a ditch?”
Hannah-Kim then additional chastised the “Karate Child” villain for dropping his mood together with her when she confronted him over the chunk.
“You yelled at me! You had the audacity! How dare you, sir,” she advised him.
Kove apologized for getting “indignant,” and mentioned he was mad as a result of he was “indulging in one thing improper by [biting her].”
The video cuts to point out Hannah-Kim having the officer doc the chunk mark and stating that she needs the incident to be “on his file.”
“I would love it to go on his file, on the file between me and him, in order that he can not ever do that to me once more,” she advised the cop.
The bodycam footage then cuts once more to Kove sitting on a bench and ends with the officer telling him his co-star isn’t urgent fees, however needs the weird incident documented so it “doesn’t occur once more.”
Hannah-Kim claimed the alleged assault occurred when she tapped Kove on the shoulder to greet him at their forged sales space, in keeping with an informational police report obtained by Folks.
“Martin Kove immediately grabbed her arm and bit her higher arm so onerous it practically drew blood, and he or she yelled out in ache,” the paperwork learn. “As soon as Martin Kove completed biting her arm, he grabbed her arm once more and commenced kissing it the place he had bit her.”
Hannah-Kim — who starred alongside Kove as Kim Da-Eun for Seasons 5 and 6 of the Netflix collection — claimed her husband, Sebastian Roche, was there and witnessed the alleged assault.
When the pair confronted the actor, he reportedly “exploded on them” whereas insisting “he didn’t do something flawed.”
The actress then ran to an officer working the occasion and reported the incident.
After talking with Hannah-Kim and the officer, Kove was “escorted out of Summer season Con,” per the report.
Kove has since apologized publicly for biting his co-star and mentioned he “deeply” regrets his actions.
“I deeply remorse and apologize for my actions relating to the incident with Alicia, a genuinely type and great one who didn’t need to be put on this place,” he mentioned in an announcement obtained by TMZ.
“I’ve all the time revered her and thought of her a extremely skilled and proficient co-worker on ‘Cobra Kai.’ I used to be being playful within the second however went too far and there may be completely no excuse for my habits.”
“I remorse my actions for which I take full accountability for what I did, and once more I apologize to her and her husband. I’m dedicated to studying from this and it’ll by no means occur once more,” he added.
The actor discovered fame as John Kreese within the 1984 film “The Karate Child.” He reprised the function for Components 2 and three of the movie franchise.
He joined Netflix’s present “Cobra Kai” in 2018 and starred within the collection till showrunners introduced it might not be returning after Season 6.
