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The Karate Kid Gives His Blessing To Remake

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Jan. 23 2009, Published 10:13 a.m. ET

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The original Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio, has mixed emotions about the new version of the 1984 film that made him a teen pinup.

“You know you’re not the young guy anymore,” the actor, 47, told OK! earlier this week at the Ray-Ban Visionary Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

“But it’s a privilege that they’re remaking something you did,” he says of the movie, starring Will Smith and and Jada Pinkett Smith's son Jaden Smith, 10 — star of the Pursuit of Happyness — and martial arts legend Jackie Chan, 54, as Mr. Miyagi.

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Jaden Smith will be “fantastic,” says Ralph, who went on to make two sequels and dozens more movies.

But a word of advice: “Be good at it because the role is special to me. Embrace it!”

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