“I said, well, you know, I can't go, and I can't be in a series because I was trained for the theater,” Winkler revealed to podcast hosts Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson in December 2025. “And [talent agent] Joan Scott said, ‘Wouldn't you just go?’”
Winkler revealed that on his 28thbirthday, October 30th, 1973, he received a call from producer Tom Miller.
Winkler also revealed that he was “nothing like the Fonz” but agreed with producer Garry Marshall that the Fonzie character should wear a black leather jacket instead of the khaki jacket he wore in Happy Days' first season. “It's very hard to be cool in cloth,” Winkler joked.
“When I changed my voice in the audition, I didn’t know where that came from,” the actor admitted. “I said, ‘Hi, I’m Henry.’ I’m scared. I have a sweat stain. I had hair down to my shoulders. And then when I was reading, the voice came out, and it unleashed my imagination.”
When he was told to comb his hair during his audition scene, Winkler went over to the mirror, pulled a comb out of his pocket, and then stopped. “Hey, I don’t have to because it’s perfect,” the Happy Days actor recalled saying. “And that one line took me for 50 years.”
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