Jaden Smith thought that the three months training for The Karate Kid wouldn't be enough.
Smith takes on his first lead role in the remake of the eighties favourite alongside Jackie Chan and trained before and during the movie.
Speaking to Movies.ie: "It was three months before, four months during the shoot and I'm training again now.
"There was a lot of training and at one point we really didn't think we would have enough time to learn it. And you know, on set we would have a few little accidents.
"OK I admit it - I got hit like once! But you have to make some contact otherwise it doesn't work. And if you are going to hit someone and they are meant to block the blow and they don't, well they are going to get hit in the face. So they need to block it."
The Karate Kid was filmed in China and while Jaden admits that he enjoyed his time there he wished that he could have spoke the language.
"On our first day in China I went to an amusement park and we were racing in these cars. Very cool. I wish I could speak the language though.
"I remember we were at the amusement park and these guys were yelling at us and I had no idea what they were saying, they just started yelling for some reason.
"It was like 'why are they yelling?' I did like China but you know, I was working a lot of the time."
The Karate Kid is released 28th July.
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