Ralph Macchio Reveals Hidden Expertise That Helped Him Safe Karate Child

Ralph Macchio is a person of many abilities — appearing, karate, and … faucet dancing!

Whereas the Karate Kid: Legends star opened up about his childhood on Friday’s episode of Dwell with Kelly and Mark, comparable to how he labored for his father’s laundromat rising up, he additionally revealed a novel ability that helped together with his well-known Karate Child roles.

“I wished to be Gene Kelly,” Macchio instructed hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos of taking faucet dancing lessons as a child. “My mother and I used to look at the previous film musicals after I was a child.”

“That is the place I kind of [was] bit with the bug of eager to carry out,” Macchio added, noting that the choreography expertise he discovered for faucet might switch to karate strikes. “One, you level your toes, and the opposite, you flex.”

With slightly encouragement from Ripa and Consuelos, the Cobra Kai actor received up and confirmed a couple of faucet strikes. Regardless of Macchio feeling his expertise have been slightly tough, Ripa and Consuelos plus the viewers applauded for seeing the unique Karate Child in motion.

After not too long ago wrapping the sixth and final season of Netflix’s Karate Kid spinoff series Cobra Kai, Macchio reprises his position of Daniel LaRusso for the newest installment of the Karate Kid franchise — Karate Child: Legends. The movie additionally stars Jackie Chan‘s Mr. Han, who appeared within the 2010 Karate Child remake, and new protagonist Li Fong (performed by Ben Wang).

Macchio instructed PEOPLE on the New York Metropolis premiere of Karate Kid: Legends that the sixth movie of the martial arts franchise “has totally different [and] extra of like an early Jackie Chan film model, a Hong Kong model.”

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“The struggle [scenes], the cameras are actually large lenses contained in the fights. There’s humor laced all through and there was at all times humor within the Karate Child movies, however the unique movies we made was form of cinema magic, very romantic,” Macchio mentioned. “Extensive, lengthy takes, dialogue scenes that breathe. It is a faster tempo for this era, however laced with humor, pleasure, subsequent degree martial arts and Ben Wang is a rock star within the film.”

“And the rationale I am on this film is to pay that legacy ahead,” Macchio added. “Shedding slightly piece of Miyagi ahead. It is by no means the unsuitable factor to do in Daniel LaRusso’s eyes and in Ralph Macchio’s eyes.”

Karate Child: Legends is now enjoying in theaters.