Cobra Kai's Mary Mouser Talks Final Season Feelings, Beauty Secrets, and Life Beyond the Dojo
glamour.commight be coming to an end, but Mary Mouser, the actor who stars as the sweet but fierce Samantha LaRusso on the hit show, doesn't feel bittersweet about any of it.
Not yet.“It's all bitter for me right now; I don't want to say goodbye,” the 28-year-old tells me over Zoom on July 18, the day the first five episodes of season 6 dropped on . “The ‘sweet’ is being there and the ‘bitter’ is stepping away.”For Mouser and her peers, many of whom were just teenagers when the series began filming in 2017, filming the highly-anticipated sixth and final season was not unlike what their on-screen counterparts were experiencing as high school seniors.“Knowing it was our final season was kind of a blessing because everybody took the time to enjoy every single minute," Mouser says. "Even if we weren't working and didn't have to be on set, people came just to hang out, just to be there and be around each other.
We enjoyed it for every minute. I shed many a tear, but many a happy tear as well.” Still, she has plenty to look forward to in the future—including, potentially, some behind-the-camera work, which she took to while on set.Mouser's experiences on the show were formative in other ways, too.
Beyond becoming IRL family with the Cobra Kai cast, she became a bit of an on-set curly hair whisperer.“Between seasons 1 and 2 of filming Cobra Kai, I figured out [my hair is curly],” she says. “Since then, I have inducted so many people into what has been deemed—not by me, but I have been told this is the name of the group now—the ‘curly cult’ of people that I went around to on set.
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