Clash of all enemies.
Henry Winkler addressed his rumored years of drama with Tom Hanks that began in the 1980s during the May 7 episode. “How to Fail” Podcast.
The “Happy Days” star, 78, told how he was fired from directing the 1989 buddy cop film “Turner & Hotch,” in which Hanks, now 67, solves the murder of his ex-partner. Working as a detective while taking care of his dog.
“I prepared for 11 weeks,” Winkler said of the project, which was directed by Roger Spotswood.
“I knew that dog. This bratty mastiff and I became friends. The star did not become my friend.”
Winkler was asked if he meant Hanks, and he replied, “I probably do.”
Before being fired from the film, Winkler and Hanks had a conversation with a fan that Winkler believes caused a strain in their relationship.
“We were in Carmel, this wonderful little seaside town on the coast of California, looking for a place, and a woman comes running, honest to God, out of a store and says ‘Henry. , Phones! Ya Allah!’ And I say, ‘And of course you know Tom Hanks,'” Winkler said.
“The director of photography, when I was fired 13 days into filming, said, ‘I knew this was going to happen that day in Carmel,'” he added.
The Post has reached out to representatives for Winkler and Hanks for comment.
In 1993, Winkler sparked rumors of a feud with Hanks when she Told people“Let’s just say I got on better with Hotch than with Turner.”
The pair’s relationship became a hot topic again in 2020 when Winkler’s “Happy Days” co-star Ron Howard said it was “disappointing” that Winkler and Hanks didn’t get along.
“I’m friends with both of them, and both men felt compelled to come talk to me about this,” Howard, 70, said in an interview. Guardian. “It was one of those unfortunate things where they really had a way of working that didn’t fit.”
Howard added: “I know it was painful for both of them, and I could have listened if I didn’t offer a solution.”
Winker, for her part, played down the drama with Hanks in the past.
“I have no quarrel with Tom Hanks,” Winkler said bluntly. TMZ In January 2020. “What everyone says and what is true are two different things.”
Two years later, Winkler clarified that she and Hanks were “happy” when they crossed paths.
“I ran into Tom and Rita. [Wilson] At an awards show right before the pandemic, and it was so hot,” the “Barry” star said Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM Radio Show In June 2022.
“It’s all very pleasant,” he added.
Hanks has never spoken about his alleged beef with Winkler.
The two shared the screen in an episode of “Happy Days” in 1982.
Hanks played an embittered former classmate of Winkler’s Fonzie.
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