Henry Winkler is getting honest about where he and Tom Hanks stand decades after their rumored nemesis.
The Happy Days alum recently sat down with Graham Bensinger for his show In Depth With Graham Bensinger and was asked about the long-running lore that he and Tom have a beef after he was fired as a director from a 1989 movie titled Turner & Hooch, starring Tom.
Recalling the days, Henry admitted he was not “suited” to direct the comedy at the time.
He explained, “At the time, being insecure, I talked too much and I gave them direction—what I thought was my job.”
Despite being hesitant, he took the job and while two weeks into filming he wanted to redo a scene “all over again”
“And apparently”, Henry noted, “that pissed them off.”
Henry went on to say, “I went completely against my tummy, and it hit me in the face with a 2×4.”
The firing left him “devastated.”
“I don’t handle it well,” he admitted.
Henry reckoned that this was the reason behind the underlying tensions between him and Tom Hanks, leading to a refusal from Tom’s side for a cameo in a retrospective of Happy Days.
“Tom, before he was a movie star, was on Happy Days,” Henry recalled. “We did a retrospective of Happy Days and we wanted 60 seconds of Tom Hanks in his episode, and we did not get permission for that.”
When asked if the strained relationship will ever be mended, Henry replied, “Sure.”
“I am still working on my perspective,” he added.
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