Are you in touch with any of your costars fromThe Outsiders?
I touched base with Rob Lowe just recently.
C. Thomas Howell, sometimes Matt Dillon.
He came up on the East Coast like me.
It was a real special time and a launching pad for all of us.
What are your favorite memories of making that film?
Getting the part was one of my favorite memories, because I wanted that part so bad.
I read that book when I was 12 years old.
So it was really everything to be chosen to play Johnny Cade.
It is the one role I wanted, and it doesn’t normally happen that way.
I was spoiled pretty early.
Is it surreal to still be playing Daniel LaRusso nearly 40 years after the originalKarate Kidmovie?
Its a bit like 1984 all over again.
Except back then they were like, Hey, arent you the Karate Kid?
And now its like, Hey, dont you play the dad on my favorite show?
If you werent able to star inCobra Kai,who would you pick to play your character?
I love Jason Bateman, everything he does.
… Hes so even-keeled.
It would be interesting to see Bateman playing LaRusso, a guy who gets so amped up.
Did you name your son Daniel after [your character] Daniel LaRusso?
I write about that in the book.
How often does someone say wax on, wax off to you these days?
Thats something thats never gone away.Cobra Kaihas only enhanced it.
Thats the beauty of a successful story that has stood the test of time.
