“Everybody over the age of 30 knows Mr. Miyagi, wax on, wax off,” the director of the new Karate Kid: Legends tells Inverse. Karate Kid: Legends has a difficult job of bringing together the original Karate Kid movies with Ralph Macchio and then the Jackie Chan soft reboot from 2010. They’re almost really, really hardcore YA dramas. There’s something really, really close here to how musical songs punctuate movies.” They move the story forwards, they do these little things, so that was my immediate thing. I wanted to ask about Dre Parker, Jaden Smith’s character from the 2010 Karate Kid.