Legends plays like your TikTok feed. Every few seconds, a needle drop, a new scene, a record scratch, a second scene spliced into the middle of the current scene, an animation to make your eyes pop, a sweeping shot of New York,

Making the leap from the lead in Disney+'s American Born Chinese to Karate Kid: Legends, Wang has to deal not only with balancing teen drama with fight choreography, but also standing up to iconic martial arts movie stars, all while making a karate kid his own. He does all of this with an astonishing ease.