Henry Winkler shared one in every of his “favourite Hollywood” tales.
On the podcast Let’s discuss off digital camera with Kelly Ripa, Winker recollects his unforgettable assembly with Robert De Niro.
The assembly came about 40 years in the past whereas filming Comfortable days Together with Ron Howard.
“Ron Howard and I had been strolling down the road at Paramount” throughout a rehearsal break, Winkler recalled, once they noticed “Robert De Niro leaning towards the door body, doing a scene from Godfather II.”
They determined to “go and say hiya” and as they had been about to depart, Winkler mentioned, “I circled and mentioned, ‘Mr. De Niro, I simply should let you know, he used the ‘f—‘ higher than anybody on the planet.”
Many years later when he met De Niro on the 2015 premiere of the movie trainee, Winkler was shocked to find that the Oscar winner remembered their earlier dialog.
“Robert De Niro has a kind of Irish hats on. I walked as much as him. I circled, and I stood towards the wall. I checked out him and mentioned, ‘I’ve to ask you – like each fan has requested me -‘ and he mentioned, ‘I must take a selfie with you,’ including, ‘I am taking a selfie “40 years in the past, I mentioned I used the f— phrase higher than anybody else,” he mentioned.
“I dropped the digital camera,” Winkler mentioned of his response. “He remembers,” I mentioned. Oh my God, I exist. Oh, that is essentially the most wonderful factor.'” “That is my wonderful story,” Winkler concluded.