Cobra Kai actor Martin Kove accused of biting co-star
Cobra Kai star Martin Kove was booted from a Washington State fan convention on the weekend after biting his co-star Alicia Hannah-Kim.
The incident happened in the VIP area of the Summer Con convention in Puyallup when Hannah-Kim, 37, and her husband walked past Kove, 78, and tapped him on the shoulder to greet him.
Kove was said to have 'exploded' on the duo. Alicia Hannah-Kim and her husband Sebastian Roche had approached Kove at the convention when the incident happened. Credit: Supplied
'Martin Kove suddenly grabbed her arm and bit her upper arm so hard it nearly drew blood, and she yelled out in pain,' a police report filed by Hannah-Kim alleged.
'Once Kove finished biting her arm, he grabbed her arm again and began kissing it where he had bit her.'
When the couple confronted the Karate Kid alum about his 'inappropriate' actions, he insisted to them he 'did not do anything wrong'.
Hannah-Kim proceeded to find an on-site law enforcement officer, who confirmed in the report that she 'had a very noticeable bite mark on her arm that was already turning blue and bruising'.
When the officer confronted Kove over the incident, the actor claimed he was 'trying to be funny', saying that the duo 'play fight all the time on the set of Cobra Kai'. Martin Kove was escorted out after the incident. Credit: Supplied
The officer spoke to Kove about the gravity of the situation and he apologised to his co-star, saying he 'did not mean for his actions to be perceived as illegal'.
While Hannah-Kim decided not to press assault charges against her co-star, she requested a report be taken and put on file in case of any further incidents.
Kove was asked to leave the convention by law enforcement, with him and his son being escorted out at the discretion of the show's producer.
Kove played Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese in the 1984 classic The Karate Kid, and its 1986 and 1989 sequels, The Karate Kid Part II and The Karate Kid Part III.
He reprised that role for Cobra Kai, set 34 years after the events of the original Karate Kid film, which originally aired on YouTube before moving to Netflix.
Kim played Kim Da-Eun, a South Korean sensei who is also the granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung, the master who taught initially taught Kove's character in his youth.
She joined the cast in the show's fifth and sixth seasons.
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