Meanwhile, Sam has been dating Miygai-Do member Robby (Tanner Buchanan), who happens to be Johnny’s estranged son. Tory has been dating Cobra Kai star pupil and Johnny’s protege Miguel (Xolo Maridueña), which would seem perfect except that he’s still hung up on his ex-girlfriend Samantha LaRusso (Mary Mouser), the daughter of Miyagi-Do instructor Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio). How are we going to actually do this?’ So they did a great job having a safe set and that carried out our vision with very little time.” Tory Versus Samantha You have these big juicy thoughts and ideas, and then on the day, you’re like, ‘Okay, well, wait a second, these are kids. They’re open and available and eager any time they could get training and time with the stunt coordinators, who weren’t given a lot of time and had to do a lot of things on the fly,” said Hurwitz.
“When they’re not shooting, they’re in the mobile dojo that we have going around with us. Most of the young cast didn’t know karate before coming onto the show, but it’s not apparent from watching the big fight. Ultimately, it feels like this big epic climactic brawl, but in reality, we had only a few days to shoot it and a few days to prepare for it.” We tried to build the school geography out, so that there was a progression going from downstairs, to the stairs, to upstairs, while branching off to different parts of the school. “It’s similar to climax in a Star Wars movie, where the war is happening on three different fronts.
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