Why 'Karate Kid: Legends' Doesn’t Have The Crane Kick, And How The Dragon Kick Was Pulled Off Instead

Interview with Jonathan Entwistle

Transcript

00:00The Dragon Kick is no wire work. It's fully real. It is fully shot and fully in camera.

00:08And we had one particularly outstanding stunt performer, AJ, who was able to do that move entirely without any wires.

00:19And that's one of the reasons we had in Withers. And yeah, so we built it around making sure that we had a big, big thing.

00:28Because so many things have been done within Karate Kid and Cobra Kai.

00:31And we didn't want to lose the essence of what the crane kick, a crane kick type approach.

00:36But yeah, that was kind of what we got was that.

00:40And we had this incredible stunt performer that was able to do that.