“Show me wax on.”Sean Daugherty watched intently as the moment of truth played out on his parents’ television in Youngstown, Ohio. Ghostbusters was the blockbuster hit that summer, but a less ambitious film called The Karate Kid caught the nine-year-old Daugherty’s attention more. Friends were few and far between – in fact, he wasn’t that different from the character of Daniel in the Karate Kid. “I wasn’t born until 1986, so I remember watching The Next Karate Kid with Hilary Swank first,” says Waterson. “We make jokes about The Karate Kid and its one-liners, but there’s chunks of wisdom in there,” says Daugherty.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2021 09:31 UTC