But with boyish charms and youthful energy, it's easy to forget that Wang isn't a kung fu wunderkind like he appears in Karate Kid: Legends."I feel a privilege," Wang told me over Zoom last week, just before Legends debuted nationwide this past Friday.

Legends before we even knew what Karate Kid: Legends was. The film was announced in 2022 but it took more than a year after that for the news to break that both Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan would star,

The Karate Kid movies of the ‘80s track the journey of Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and his introduction to martial arts. Of course, LaRusso’s wise and jovial mentor, Mr. Miyagi, receives his fair share of the limelight as well.