Although Henry Winkler has played in countless films and television shows during his long career, for most viewers, he will always be known as Fonz. Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, the most popular figure in the 70s “Happy Days”, was the role of rupture that made Winkler a familiar name. It is also the role that ruined his life. Well, in a way; As Winkler explained in a 2023 Interview with TodayThere were drawbacks to play such a loved character, and it was before his character invented the concept of “jumping the shark”.
“It was eight or nine years ago at the time I could not be hired because I was” Le Fonz “, because I was typical,” said Winkler. “I had psychic pain that was debilitating because I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know where to find it, anything, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I had a family. I had a dog.
Winkler said that during an interview for the “Barry” television show, where he played an old faded actor, someone who could not get pieces today but who still held a certain level of respect Due to a big role he had in his youth. The story of the character’s life is not identical to that of Winkler – at least, we certainly hope – but that adds a more fun meta -hot thing to the whole series. “Barry” is a program that partly concerns the way Hollywood is a cruel and ruthless place which is nevertheless easy to become addicted; Before he drives Barry and Sally out of the deep end, he did the same for the character of the Winkler.
Despite the frustration that comes from being tycine as Fonz, Winkler said he considers that all of this is worth it. “I would not have exchanged it,” he said. “Not only that, but also, I don’t know that I would have happened here if I had not crossed the fight.”
For young viewers, the Fonz curse is no longer
As a person born 14 years after the broadcast of the final of “happy days”, I can honestly tell Winkler that when I see him in a new show or a new film, I do not think at all at Fonz. Of course, I know of Le Fonz, and I watched a few episodes “Happy Days” from time, but the character does not have the same weight as for older viewers. When I watched “Scream” for the first time and saw Henry Winkler play the school director, I appreciated his performance entirely for herself.
As I looked at “Barry”, I no longer knew Winkler’s work, but I still do not compare his performance to “Happy Days”. The younger generations can watch Winkler act without any burden of expectations, to assess the character of Gene Cousineau according to her own conditions. And when it comes to playing Cousineau in “Barry”, which is undoubtedly the most impressive role of Winkler since “Happy Days”, Winkler seemed deeply grateful for this opportunity. “I cry that this show is finished”, he Once said in an interview in 2023. He recalled his first reading table on the show:
“I remember first reading.! You just make me nauseous” and I slap this table, and the man at the end of the table jumped.
