By one role. Henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. The show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. It was a far cry from winklers own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. How did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days . Henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. I am happy to be here. Let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. Did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen . No. I was hired as a fringe character with six lines. I would work one day a week. I would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldnt play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. And then remember, we did it with one camera. Like a little movie. We shot 12 slows. We were nu
By one role. Henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. The show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. It was a far cry from winklers own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. How did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days . Henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. I am happy to be here. Let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. Did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen . No. I was hired as a fringe character with six lines. I would work one day a week. I would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldnt play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. And then remember, we did it with one camera. Like a little movie. We shot 12 slows. We were nu
By one role. Henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. The show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. It was a far cry from winklers own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. How did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days . Henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. I am happy to be here. Let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. Did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen . No. I was hired as a fringe character with six lines. I would work one day a week. I would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldnt play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. And then remember, we did it with one camera. Like a little movie. We shot 12 slows. We were nu
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