This week’s guest is Ralph Macchio. Macchio has—as he puts it—been wearing Daniel LaRusso’s shoes for a long time. Since 1984 in fact, when he first stepped into the role of The Karate Kid.
Two sequel films, and 34 years later, Cobra Kai was born. The key Karate Kid characters were back! In a TV series! Only now perhaps ‘kid’ was no longer an appropriate title.
Either way, fans leaned hard into the reimagined world of the mid-life Daniel LaRusso and his arch rival Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
After two seasons on YouTube Red, Netflix snapped up Cobra Kai, and now we’re heading into its sixth and final season. During this podcast chat, Macchio-also an EP on the show—explains that although shooting hasn’t yet begun and he hasn’t seen a script, he has an idea of the overall story arc.
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