‘Daniel has bravado and won’t quit. If I got my ass kicked by five karate experts on motorcycles, I would have probably found a different way to school’
Ralph Macchio, actor
John’s hallway was filled with actors vying to play Daniel LaRusso, the film’s hero. Everyone was making fun of the title. I immediately became defensive – in hindsight, I was already beginning to own the part.. I was from the suburbs of Long Island and emphasised my New York accent. That attitude fed into Daniel’s move from east coast to west coast in the movie. He is new in a town where it seems that everybody has a BMW, cool sunglasses and blond hair – and he wants to defend his roots.
Apart from four jiu-jitsu lessons when I was 10, I had no martial arts experience. Before filming, I was trained inkarate by Pat E Johnson, who coordinated the fight scenes and played the head referee in the tournament at the end of the film.
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