‘Come with me if you want to live’: Arnold Schwarzenegger gets coronavirus vaccine

Terminator star urged fans to get vaccinated and listen to the experts

Arnold Schwarzenegger has received the coronavirus vaccine.

The actor urged others to get vaccinated by sharing a video of himself receiving the first dose in his car and quoting his famous film The Terminator.

“Today was a good day. I have never been happier to wait in a line,” he wrote in the caption. “If you’re eligible, join me and sign up to get your vaccine. Come with me if you want to live.”

In the clip, the star, wearing a black face mask, also references the “put that cookie down” line from his film Jingle All the Way, telling the nurse: “Put that needle down!”

In a longer post on Facebook, Schwarzenegger wrote: “Dr Fauci and all of the virologists and epidemiologists and doctors have studied diseases and vaccines for their entire lives, so I listen to them and I urge you to do the same.”

Warning people about conspiracy theories on social media, he added: “In this case, virtually all of the real experts around the world are telling us the vaccine is safe and some people on Facebook are saying it isn’t. In general, I think if the circle of people you trust gets smaller and smaller and you find yourself more and more isolated, it should be a warning sign that you’re going down a rabbit hole of misinformation.”

Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Tom Jones, Dame Judi Dench, Prue Leith and Dame Joan Collins are among the other celebrities who have already been vaccinated.