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‘I should really be the world champion’: Ralph Macchio on kicking it as The Karate Kid for 41 years

After putting Cobra Kai to bed after six seasons, the actor is teaming up with Jackie Chan in Karate Kid: Legends

In this fictive universe, it’s three years since the end of Netflix series Cobra Kai and LaRusso has settled into his gardening gloves and embraced the spirit of his own mentor, Mr Miyagi, whose graceful, defensive karate style, Miyagi-Do, was all about never looking for a fight. “At the end of the game, it’s show business,” he says, never sounding more Italian American than with that emphasis, “so they’re trying to say, OK, how can we milk this and create the next return on investment, while I’m trying to protect the truth of the character.” Its creators, Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are “some of the biggest Karate Kid fans I’ve ever met,” Macchio says.

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