“I wanted to come back to the role,” he said.
Are you going to give him some versatile situations?'
And they did."

He elaborated, “You’ve got to have excellent writing to draw you in and keep you there.
… you could not recreate and do sequel after sequel unless you have good writing.”
Clearly, Kreese still means a great deal to him.

When the casting person called him, Kove was very annoyed.
The actor memorably finished up his rant with the classic line, “Mercy is for the weak!
In here or on the street!”
He was supposed to drop that line in the audition anyway while stalking back and forth through the dojo.
“I completely berated them,” he said.
“It worked.”
And, clearly, he still is.