Come with me if you want to live’: Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates COVID-19 vaccination with ‘Terminator’ quote
On Tuesday, Los Angeles County announced its residents ages 65 and over were eligible to register for COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
A day later, one of the county’s most famous 73-year-olds took them up on it.
Film star and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger shared a video of himself Wednesday as he received a vaccination shot while sitting in the Dodgers Stadium parking lot. As per usual, The Governator packed some self-referential punchlines in the post.
“Put that needle down,” Schwarzenegger cracked in his famed Austrian accent to a healthcare worker administering the shot. He then thanked her and addressed the camera.
“All right, I just got my vaccine, and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone,” he said before channeling his T-800 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. “Come with me if you want to live.”
The vaccination posts are some of the first Schwarzenegger has made since a widely shared video from Jan. 10 in which he harshly condemned the assault by pro-Donald Trump supporters on the Capitol Building and flexed his blade from Conan the Barbarian.
“The mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol. They shattered the ideas we took for granted. They did not just break down the doors of the building that housed American democracy. They trampled the very principles on which our country was founded,”.
