Cobra Kai actor says Ralph Macchio is "nervous" to fight Jackie Chan in the new Karate Kid movie: "He still moves like he's a 20-year-old"
Sep. 15, 2024Exclusive: Jacob Bertrand gives us the scoop on the new Karate Kid movie
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Cobra Kai star Jacob Bertrand says co-star Ralph Macchio has been filling him in on all the deets about the new Karate Kid movie.
“He said that Jackie Chan still moves like he’s a 20-year-old and it’s really scary to fight with him. But you know, he’s obviously a master and is so cool to work with,” Bertrand tells GamesRadar+. “He was just talking about being nervous to fight Jackie Chan, ‘cause Jackie Chan is freaking Jackie muh-fricking Chan. But he said the fights went super well and that all his stuff was great and I’m stoked for the movie.”
“It was cool texting him as he was, as he was doing the movie, being like, all right, dude, what’s up? How is it? And, you know, getting all the updates. He was saying that the young cast is really, really talented – but that they’re not quite as good as I am specifically, that no one really holds a candle to me,” Bertrand jokes. “These are Ralph Macchio’s words, not mine. I’m trying to think [what he said] verbatim. I think ‘I’m a God’ is what he said.”
The Cobra Kai cast and crew has no involvement with the upcoming Karate Kid movie, though a Cobra Kai movie is not out of the realm of possibility as the ‘Miyagi-verse’ continues to grow. Cobra Kai is set to end after six successful seasons on Netflix - one of which earned an Emmy nomination - and is being split into three parts, which Bertrand swears “wasn’t the cast’s idea” but will be well worth the wait.
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.
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