Collider Extras's video: Karate Kid: Ralph Macchio on Elizabeth Shue Getting Cut from the Film Franchise

Even though The Karate Kid remains a beloved franchise, it had shortcomings. For instance, Elizabeth Shue’s character, Ali, was written off with one line in Part II. During an interview with Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff for his newly released biography, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me, Ralph Macchio commented on that line,m and how he was too young and busy to realize what it meant for Shue. In the first The Karate Kid, Ali plays a romantic interest for both Danny LaRusso (Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka). Danny and Ali become an item at the movie's end, but the star is nowhere to be seen in the sequel. In fact, in Part II, Macchio delivers a single line to explain how Ali crashed his car, broke up with him, and started dating a football player. It’s pretty shallow and somewhat disrespectful of the character. Fortunately, Cobra Kai brought Shue back for Season 3, allowing the three characters some closure almost four decades after the write-off. The whole event weighed upon Macchio when writing his autobiography, a task that made him realize how he wasn’t so considerate in the past. Read more: https://collider.com/karate-kid-part-2-elizabeth-shue-ralph-macchio-comments/ BREAKING NEWS, REVIEWS & MORE: https://collider.com​​​​​​​​​​​​ SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/collider​​​​​​​​​​​​ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL https://twitter.com/collider​​​​​​​​​​​​ https://instagram.com/collider​​​​​​​ https://facebook.com/collider​ For copyright matters please contact us at: legal@valnetinc.com