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.

Karate Kid: Legends put up a decent fight, but couldn’t strike down mammoth competitors like Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning at the box office. The Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio-led sequel sparred its way to $21 million in its opening weekend—a decent haul but lower than Deadline‘s initial projections.

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,