{"id":544028,"date":"2023-01-20T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=544028"},"modified":"2023-01-30T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T00:14:25","slug":"tom-hanks-explains-why-kicking-fonzie-on-happy-days-led-to-his-start-as-a-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tom-hanks-explains-why-kicking-fonzie-on-happy-days-led-to-his-start-as-a-movie-star","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks Explains Why Kicking Fonzie On Happy Days Led To His Start As A Movie Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we know Tom Hanks for his movies like Toy Story , Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump , among, many, many others. However, the movie that kicked off his career as a leading man was Splash . It turns out, he ended up doing that movie partially because of a small role he had on Happy Days where he got to kick Fonzie. And I gotta say, what a way to kick off a career! While talking with SiriusXM Hanks talked about the one episode of Happy Days he appeared in during his early acting days, much like other big actors like Robin Williams who appeared in an episode during the start of his acting career. Hanks is now talking about his experience working with Henry Winkler on the show, and explained he got to do something not many have: I kicked Fonzie, I got dressed up in a judo karate outfit, and I think I&#8217;m legendarily the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks recalls the story of how he got his role in Splash, and the reason why kicking Fonzie on Happy Days helped him get his start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}