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Going to a mall on a Saturday probably wasn’t something I was apt to do. I had attention there - it was like the map of the only star’s home. When I wasn’t working, that’s where I would go. I lived in the ’burbs of Long Island, not far from where I live now. I always kept one foot in and one foot out of Hollywood. It’s hard to convey to young people just how famous you were in the Eighties. It’s kind of wonderful and beautiful, and on the flip side it’s like, wow, that is a long time ago. So Cobra Kai is just going back to that same section of time, which is now 34-plus years ago. Most of the time that I’m talking to, say, someone like you or someone on the street for maybe the first time, the conversation is funneled into a small section of time in my life, which is not the norm. Not that deep, dark place like, “Oh my God, I’m old now,” which is true if you’re my kids, but it’s the nostalgia of life. Then on the flip side, on the personal side, it’s me as someone who is not 18 anymore, or 16 anymore, or 25 or 35 or 45 anymore, saying, “Wow.” It was just a realization of how much time has gone by.

That was part of the early discussion: I said, “OK, so how do we disguise it not being exactly the house, because it’s not.” Hey, it’s 30 years.

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Now we shoot exteriors in Los Angeles, but a lot of the stuff is shot in Atlanta, so we had to figure out how to pull that off. Well, the house they used in the original Karate Kid film was sold and torn down - and then they had to build it on the back lot of what was Columbia Pictures for parts two and three, and it changed a little bit. Miyagi’s house on the show was unexpectedly moving. With the first two seasons (originally produced for YouTube) now on Netflix, and a third on its way, Macchio discussed the show, the original movie, dealing with Eighties fame, the glories of Crossroads and more. He plays a now-middle-aged Daniel LaRusso, a dad and car-dealership owner who’s also doing his best to become a Miyagi-style sensei to a new generation of would-be crane-kickers.

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“It’s a karate soap opera,” says Ralph Macchio, accurately describing Cobra Kai, the series that revives the Karate Kid universe, with a few twists.

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