In Reply to: RIP:Pat Morita - Appealing actor, fairly big "star..." posted by eppis1 on November 25, 2005 at 09:45:08:
While going through some obit. articles on Pat Morita, I read about how he got the Karate Kid gig as kind of a fluke.Apparantly, the director wanted Toshiro Mifune (huge Japanese star of
samurai flicks, a "Japan's John Wayne") but Mifune wanted too much $. Pat Morita apparantly had to audition multiple times to get the gig.If Mifune played Mr. Miyagi, wouldn't that have been a little weird?
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- A Karate Kid fun fact.... - artn 15:17:24 11/29/05 (0)