The Fonzie character was so popular that producers considered changing the name of the show to Fonzie’s Happy Days. Even without the name change, Winkler became a superstar, and Fonzie remains one of the most iconic pop culture figures in TV history more than 50 years later.
“After Happy Days finished, I'm sitting in my office,” Winkler, 80, recently shared on Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast. “All I'm getting are Fonzie-like [offers]. Like, I have no idea, am I ever going to do anything that is as powerful? And I went dark. I went dark. I thought, I have no idea what I'm going to do, whether I could do it again, and I'm over.”
"I said, 'I can't do that. I don’t understand one thing about producing or the business. I only know how to do what I'm doing,’” Winkler recalled telling his lawyer. "He said, ‘You’ll learn.’”
"First show I ever produced,” Winkler told Danson in the interview. “And you learn there are things I can do."
Winkler also explained that the greatest thing he ever did was learn how to “pivot.” “And when you pivot, the universe opens up and all of this generous stardust falls on you,” he said.
Winkler is long past his days of being typecast, but he once revealed that at the height of his Fonzie fame, he turned down one of the biggest film roles of the ‘70s—the role of Danny Zuko in Grease—because it was another greaser-like character. The role ultimately went to John Travolta.
“So what happened?” Winkler continued. “I go home. I relax. I have a V8. John Travolta goes home and buys a plane.”
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