Wes Anderson adds Henry Winkler to his menagerie of cool acting friends
It’s an age-old adage in Hollywood: “Get in good with Wes Anderson, and you’re guaranteed a paycheck and a quirky role as, like, a heartbroken philatelist once every 3-to-5 years.” Barry star Henry Winkler is the latest beneficiary of this unofficial policy, having signed on for a role in Anderson’s latest, The French Dispatch, about a group of journalists living in 20th century Paris. Winkler—whose late-career renaissance began with Adam Sandler, drifted into Arrested Development, and hit a new peak with his Emmy-winning role in Bill Hader’s hitman comedy—is just the latest new member of Anderson’s acting menagerie, alongside Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, and Benicio del Toro, all of whom we have to assume are about to be mercilessly hazed by Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton as part of Anderson’s centrally composed, delicately soundtracked process of breaking in new fish.