His buddy Bob Odenkirk became an action-movie guy later in life. So why not Henry Winkler?
“Listen, I'm looking forward to being in the superhero sphere. Maybe I was a superhero and now I jump but I can't fly,” Winkler says, wryly referencing his infamous jumping-the-shark “Happy Days” moment.
Arthur Fonzarelli naturally comes up in conversation when chatting with Winkler, but even the Fonz might give some side-eye and a "Whoa" to the 80-year-old Emmy winner’s latest character.
In director Ben Wheatley’s action thriller “Normal” (in theaters now), Ulysses (Odenkirk) is a temporary sheriff in the small Minnesota town of Normal who discovers the place’s darkest secret: It’s the home of riches owned by Japanese Yakuza gangsters. Winkler plays the town’s mayor, an excessively charming, morally questionable fellow who scrambles the town’s cops and residents to keep Ulysses from fouling everything up.
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