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\"What I did feel when we were making the movie is that Pat Morita and I had a natural organic ease in our acting styles,\" he told USA Today Sports' For the Win. \"Those scenes just really – I don’t know how to describe it. If there was anything evident on that set, it was evident that relationship was very natural and real.\"
For the Win even brought up 1983 audition videos that Morita and Macchio are featured in, but not in the same room reading together. Even though they had never met, Macchio says you can see they were a natural fit for the characters.
\"Even in those audition scenes, you see Miyagi and Daniel there,\" he added. \"Those were just cold reads. Those were walk ins. John [Avildsen, the director] talked about the characters a little and go.\"
He continued, \"Those takes were done without any direction outside of explaining what the scene was and who the character was. It’s not terribly far from what’s the polished version on the screen. It informs you on how important casting is and how important the right actor in the right role is. I was just the right kid at the right time and Pat was the right actor at the right time.\"
What a blast Friday!http://t.co/Cdd6Zjy1t5 pic.twitter.com/p6FDJZynaU
— Ralph Macchio (@ralphmacchio) August 24, 2014
Macchio went out on a limb and predicted what he thinks Daniel LaRusso would be doing now, three decades later.
\"I think LaRusso would be a family man,\" he said. \"I think all the Miyagisms made him a good family man and decent dad. I’m sure if his son was picked on he’d know how to answer some of those questions. I think LaRusso should turn out to be exactly what we want him to be. Middle-working class guy, successful and after being screwed [over] by all these women in the two or three movies ... he ends up finding the right one.\"
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