Henry Winkler Talks About His "Happy Days" Audition

Henry Winkler talks about his "Happy Days" audition. Interview at 692 Broadway in NYC for BUILD Series.
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[@leoesposito8762]

I still love this guy and happy days today. ..

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Henry Winkler is exactly like you see him here: Extremely nice and soft-spoken. One of the nicest people - truly - working in Hollywood.

[@jjaniero]

One of the best Inside the Actors Studioguests ever

[@MikeS24-v4s]

He created himself.

[@brothergaryii]

He has a birthday 4 days after my mother.

[@hyzercreek]

It wasn't a stretch to play Fonzi from when he was Butchie in the Lords of Flatbush. Henry is from New York so he do the accent

[@christopherbrownmaaga4668]

The bounty hunter

[@Tull1996]

I was a kid in the 70's/80's, so he (as "The Fonz") was a pretty major part of my youth....I'm glad that he seems like such a nice and humble guy in "real life"....not all of them are.

[@xtraflo]

That was Awesome seeing Fonzie appear out of thin air .... !

[@georgiethumbs2438]

He is such an incredibly cool incredibly smart guy. He says he lives through a philosophy of gratitude and tenacity. Gratitude for what he has because it eliminates anger and tenacity because it gets him to where he wants to be and that has to be hands down the greatest thing I ever heard from any celebrity in my life

[@amandabernsen9174]

Yes sir, you are bang on with that assessment! : )

[@kalevquigley5686]

I'm shook that his voice hasn't changed at all

[@thefool2007]

I got to meet him a few years ago. He was the friendliest, kindest, and most genuinely likable person I’ve ever met. It was so awesome to meet this acting icon.

[@thowen1988]

I grew up with 'Happy Days' in the 1970s; my family and I watched faithfully every Tuesday night at 8pm on ABC. The one thing that struck me as a kid was that "cool" and "thug" are not synonyms. Fonzie was cool, but he was also a gentleman, and responsible. That was the message that I got as kid watching 'Happy Days' in the 1970s.

[@Mortthemoose]

Me too

[@vassa1972]

Henry Winkler is great as the Fonz and honestly he should have won something for that role

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Hey! October 30th? That's today! Happy birthday, Henry!

[@williamhenry1934]

Wow that was great how he turned into the fonze

[@AhtoNajeebRashied]

The man. Love his interviews. So good.

[@MrNYCman530]

Ayyyy!

[@PeteMitchell_Maverick]

He inspired me, from the second I knew about him!

[@tonybiancofiore272]

The coolest scared guy on tv ...ever...nice interview

[@daveorme9979]

It's sorta of the Nutty Professor thing in real life.

[@The-Battle-Brother]

Hard to believe that such a humble, nervous man without a sense of self (when he was younger), was so adept at playing the literal opposite of what he was - Fonzie, a character who was the epitome of cool and confidence. I guess that's what makes him such a great actor.

[@JLMEALER2000]

My teen years broke when I found out he really did not know how to ride a motorcycle! Saw an interview where he said he was terrified riding it for the brief time during the opening of the show credits.... Sad day. But aaaaayyyy. He cried in the show where Ritchie was in the hospital, but that was just before they had him jump the shark.

[@AtmxDawg24]

It’s Richie; no T in it.🧐

[@kentlewis987]

Such a complex person & how cool is it that my daughter was born on his 57th birthday...aayyyy!

[@aaronjaben7913]

A great man and a good guy

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

it was your destiny!

[@mrhawk1924]

We miss Fonzie

[@beelzebub9387]

THE FONZ!

[@chrysostom8987]

I was a single parent of 4 children and one had dislexiah but every single day I help all my children to learn read wright and arithmetic every single day and I never told any of my children that they were stopped it wasn't easy bringing up 4 children alone in the 70 s but I did it I had no car either every time I go food shopping my mother wach my children .

[@rmartin7558]

Thespians rule.

[@radioactive9861]

So Glad they got rid of Fonzie's 'golf jacket' and he got to wear the leather jacket(that now resides in a museum in Washington DC...).

[@JungKook-up1ws]

This makes me believe that the Fonz is actually real. He's Henry Winkler's alter-ego.

[@Omrentonth999]

his birthday is coming up he'll always remind me of waterboy lol

[@mrhawk1924]

We need a Spanish Fonz. Aaa my Amigo. Adios

[@heartnsew5999]

Has Henry Winkler died

[@jasonirelan4487]

👇👈👉☝🐍

[@highnrising]

It's funny that "Fonzie" is a totally invented persona. Stallone is pretty much the same guy as his screen characters when he's not acting.

[@Ace-ke7fq]

He could've mentioned about going against Micky Dolenz for ''fonz'' Micky sure did, and he spoke highly of Henry getting the part.

[@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time]

What roles did he play Henry? Only role that he would play Henry is being cast in a movie about himself, or am I missing something here? I do remember Winkler, early on in the Happy Days series when out in public, screaming at crowds, "I'M NOT FONZIE, I'M HENRY WINKLER!!!"

[@libertygibbit4406]

Every party needs a pooper that's why they invited you...party pooper

[@jacksugden8190]

Thought his character quite threatening to watch, Jack the lad gods gift, the series was full of braggers from beginning to end and went on for far too long with dead end scripts.

[@davidcooke8005]

27? I thought he was about 21.

[@ahmandg.9659]

Nah, his character was like 18 or 19. But henry was 27.

[@lmdmn1645]

Fonzie was much older than 18 or 19 at the beginning of the series!

[@Mortthemoose]

Yeah, I think he was supposed to be about 20