Henry Winkler explains how his 30-year feud with Tom Hanks began

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“How To Fail” podcast. The “Happy Days” star, 78, explained how he was fired from directing the 1989 buddy cop film “Turner & Hooch,” which starred Hanks, now 67, as a detective solving the murder of his former partner and caring for his dog.“I did 11 weeks of preparation,” Winkler said about the project, which ended up being directed by Roger Spottiswoode.“I knew this dog.

This slobbery mastiff and I became friends. The star did not become my friend.” Winkler was asked if he meant Hanks, and he responded, “I probably do.”Before he was fired from the film, Winkler and Hanks had an interaction with a fan that Winkler believes caused a strain on their relationship.“We were in Carmel, this little seaside wonderful town on the coast of California, looking for a location, and a woman comes, honest to God, comes running out of a shop and says ‘Henry, Fonz!

Oh, my god!’ and I say, ‘And, of course, you know Tom Hanks,’ ” Winkler said.“The director of photography, when I was fired 13 days into filming, said, ‘I knew that this was going to happen, on that day in Carmel,’ ” he added.The Post has reached out to reps for Winkler and Hanks for comment.Back in 1993, Winkler sparked the rumors about his feud with Hanks when he told People, “Let’s just say I got along better with Hooch than I did with Turner.”The pair’s relationship became a hot topic again in 2020 when Winkler’s “Happy Days” co-star Ron Howard said it “was disappointing” that Winkler and Hanks didn’t get along“I’m friends with them both, and both men felt compelled to come to talk to me about it,” said Howard, 70, in an interview with the Guardian.