Henry Winkler says he was afraid of being typecast when he decided not to take the lead role as Danny Zucko in the 1978 musical 'Grease' because of his 'Happy Days' fame.
Henry Winkler says fears of being typecast prompted him to turn down the lead role in 1978’s 'Grease.' 'I was dumb,' Winkler told People magazine in this week’s issue.
There were eight or nine years at a time when I couldn't get hired because I was 'The Fonz', because I was typecast,' he told Today.com earlier this year. 'I had psychic pain that was debilitating because I didn't know what to do. I didn't know where to find it, whatever it was. I didn't know what I was going to do. I had a family. I had a dog. I had a roof. Oh. My. God.' He eventually created his own production company out of 'will and fear.
Even in the midst of ‘Happy Days,’ at the height of my fame and success, I felt embarrassed, inadequate,' he wrote in an excerpt of his new memoir 'Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond,' according to People. 'Every Monday at 10 o’clock, we would have a table reading of that week’s script, and at every reading I would lose my place or stumble. I would leave a word out, a line out.
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