I thought this was for a newer Scream movie and was about to argue that anyone who thought the Fonz overshadowed Winkler’s dramatic chops clearly hadn’t watched Barry.
This is for the 1996 poster, so Happy Days would have been much fresher in people’s minds and he hadn’t had as much opportunity to act in more serious roles. Always sucks to see a great actor pigeonholed, but I get what the studio was concerned about.
Didn’t the Scream villain become the goofy sidekick character of Shaggy not long after this.
I haven’t seen either in 20 years, so…
Edit: Scream is thirty years old, fuck
Barry is such a damn good show. The acting scenes where they fumble and then snap into character for a performance really show how good they are. I don’t think I’ve seen a better portrayal of acting to act.
He’s a great actor, but he’ll always be the Fonz. Just like Bryan Cranston will be Hal, for me.
To me he will always be Dr. Tim Whatley.
Jumped the shark.
That term is a bigoted micro aggression.
