Bringing back vintage Karate Kid characters was Cobra Kai's winning formula, but one villain nearly changed the entire tone ...

Daniel may have been Mr. Miyagi's student, but the spirit of the karate master burns brightest in the most unlikely places by ...

The Karate Kid’s Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is the quintessential ’80s villain. You didn’t attend high school with thee Johnny Lawrence, but everyone knows a Johnny Lawrence.

I t’s a big year for Ralph Macchio and the “Karate Kid” universe, as the martial arts franchise celebrates two major releases ...

Johnny Lawrence is Johnny Lawrence till the end, but he’s a more evolved version. That’s where we were looking to go. We didn’t want him to suddenly be Mr. Nice Guy and soft.

That’s a great question. Yes. I think their love for Johnny Lawrence, and the work I did in the ‘80s from some other films, too, I was always the heel. They called me for a meeting to pitch ...

When the original “Karate Kid” movie came out in 1984, it was pretty clear: William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence was the bad guy, the bully who picked on Ralph Macchio’s new kid in town ...

The real Karate Kid has always been Johnny Lawrence: member and sensei of Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang karate dojos. The wildly successful “Cobra Kai” reached its series finale on Netflix on ...

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, respectively, continue the movie’s story, finding the two men in very different places — though still physically in the ...

In one of our past conversations, you told me that one of the main arcs of the series was the redemption of Johnny Lawrence. Did you always know that the pent-up trauma and hurt between Johnny and ...