The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley
Arts:Visual Arts
Episode 050 - Actor Susan Gallagher (a.k.a. COBRA KAI's "Homeless Lynn") Returns!
This week, I’m delighted to welcome back to the show actor Susan Gallagher, who I had the pleasure of speaking with last May about her acclaimed role on the LGBTQ web series QUEERING. Now she joins me to talk about what’s obviously become her most recognizable and most popular on-screen performance: that of the outspoken, opinionated and feisty “Homeless Lynn” on Netflix’s hit series COBRA KAI.
Part of the mega-hit “Karate Kid” universe, COBRA KAI was co-created by Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg, and reunites three of the principal cast members from the first Karate Kid film. The series follows the tenuous relationship - and rivalry - between teenage karate champ-turned successful Los Angeles car dealer Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) and his former competitor Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), whose adulthood has been anything but prosperous.
Both motivated and scarred by the brutal training methods of the man who once mentored him, Sensei John Kreese (played by Martin Kove), Johnny decides to take a new generation of warriors under his wing when he re-opens his old teacher’s dojo - Cobra Kai - and redraws the battle lines between himself and Daniel in an escalating conflict that threatens to destroy themselves, their families, and the teenagers who turn to karate for self-defense. Zabka, Macchio and Kove, of course, are all reprising their roles from the first “Karate Kid” movie.
On the lighter side of it all is “Homeless Lynn”, who we first meet in COBRA KAI’s opening episode as she antagonizes Johnny while sitting outside the same strip mall that soon serves as home base for his new dojo. Yet that’s just the beginning of the frequently contentious give-and-take between the two, and it’s an element of COBRA KAI that provides a humorous break from the show’s signature one-two punch of serious drama and high-kicking karate action.
Though “Homeless Lynn” only appears in a few brief scenes during the first 3 seasons of COBRA KAI, she’s already won a tremendous following among the show’s loyal fans - so much so that there’s even a Facebook fan group dedicated to her character. We’ll talk about that and more as Susan Gallagher joins us on the fiftieth episode of The Viewfinder Podcast.
Connect with Susan:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SusanGallagherOfficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/susanlgallagher
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsusangallagher/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuSqGVcHIC2yxm54aoTLpw
Check out the "Cobra Kai's Homeless Lynn" Facebook fan group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2701589869963294/
Connect with The Viewfinder Podcast:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheViewfinderPodcast
Twitter: @ViewfinderPod
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