“Cobra Kai” actress Courtney Henggeler was about to leave Hollywood behind when she landed a role in the Netflix series.
“My husband told me I could not quit because we got our health insurance through SAG,” the actress, 42, who has had a number of lead roles over the past decade, told Page Six.
He was like, ‘Stay there a little longer until we can figure out our next step in health insurance. ”
Luckily for Henggeler, she was tapped a week later to star alongside Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in ‘Cobra Kai’, playing Macchio’s wife on screen, Amanda LaRusso.
“I definitely made his name one word for the first two seasons of filming,” she conceded about Macchio. “He was like, ‘You can call me Ralph.’ ”
However, Henggeler, who appeared in series “The Big Bang Theory”, “Mom” and “Happy Endings”, further admitted that he grew up. It was Zabka’s character, the villain Johnny Lawrence, who stole her heart in the original 1984 film.
‘The blonde hair? The surfer bad boy? Come! She said, adding: ‘What can you do? The heart seeks what the heart seeks. I was probably six too. ”