It’s not quite Taylor Swift and Katy Perry embracing while dressed as a burger and fries, but it appears any rumored feud between Hollywood good guys Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks is officially dead—if it even existed in the first place.

When stopped on the street by TMZ this week, Winkler said there was no animosity between himself and the Oscar winner. “I don’t have a feud with Tom Hanks,” the Barry star said bluntly. “What everybody says and what is true are two different things.”

Some context for those wondering where this alleged unrest even started: Back in the late ’80s, Winkler was slated to direct Hanks in the mostly forgotten cop-dog buddy comedy, Turner & Hooch. But the former Happy Days star was fired by producer Jeffrey Katzenberg just 13 days into production. “Let’s just say I got along better with Hooch than I did with Turner,” Winkler told People in 1993. Hanks, as one might guess, played Turner in the film.

In the years since Winkler has often repeated a variation on that joke—most recently telling Andy Cohen during an October 2019 Watch What Happens Live interview that he “got along great, great with that dog.” When Hanks received the Cecil B. deMille Award at the Golden Globes earlier this month, Winkler was shown in the audience wearing a blank expression.

When asked about his previous comments regarding Hanks and Turner & Hooch, Winkler told TMZ he had simply been having “fun,” adding that he saw Hanks at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night. “It was beautiful,” Winkler said.

Winkler and Hanks have not worked together since those fateful days on Turner & Hooch, but Winkler claimed he would love to collaborate with Hanks and even took a picture with him recently. “We did that at…I believe we did that at Bruno Mars’s concert," he said.

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