After 'Cobra Kai,' Xolo Maridueña is ready for his next challenge

Xolo Maridueña grew up alongside his ‘Cobra Kai,’ character. Now the actor is ready for the next act of his career.

Xolo Maridueña received two phone calls the day he found out he’d been cast in “Cobra Kai,” the spinoff series set three decades after the 1984 “The Karate Kid” movie ended. The first came from show creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who confirmed that he had landed the protagonist role of Miguel Diaz, the scrappy Reseda teen that learns martial arts after being bullied. Maridueña, then 16, couldn’t believe his luck.

Maridueña’s face lights up at the mention of Casa 0101, and even hints at the possibility of returning to the theater if given the opportunity to direct a play of his own now that “Cobra Kai” is wrapping up. “I can't help but feel like the community that I was fostered in, El Sereno, Los Angeles, my family, my friends, Casa 0101, everyone that helped raise me and made me feel so comfortable in my skin — I was allowed to be myself,' he said.

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