Ralph Macchio is taking a crane kick to criticisms that “The Karate Kid” was “too white.” “People have said it’s a very white cast..that it didn’t dive into the Asian story,” Macchio said in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine. The 60-year-old actor said the 1984 classic, where he starred alongside Noriyuki “Pat” Morita as … Read more
Ralph Macchio learned he was crane-kicked out of “The Next Karate Kid” by reading about it in the newspaper. Macchio, then in his early 30s, was clueless about the project until reading in 1994 that producer Jerry Weintraub had told reporters the actor was “too old” to continue his role as New Jersey underdog Daniel … Read more
Ralph Macchio is ready to send the secrets of “The Karate Kid” to the mat once and for all. Nearly four decades after wowing audiences as New Jersey underdog Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 classic, Macchio is pulling back the curtain on the iconic movie franchise with a new 256-page memoir, “Waxing On: The Karate … Read more