Although Ron Howard has spent the latter a part of his profession behind the digicam, directing films like Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, always remember that he began his profession as an actor … and actors have egos. Sure, even Howard—finest identified for portraying the healthful Opie Taylor of The Andy Griffith Present and the good-hearted Richie Cunningham on Blissful Days—had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder in his youth.
And that got here into play when the Blissful Days producers thought of renaming the present Fonzie’s Blissful Days, to capitalize on the recognition of Henry Winkler‘s character.