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Arnold Schwarzenegger received a pacemaker earlier this week. -
Arnold Schwarzenegger in a scene from “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” in 2003. Now he's just a machine himself, he claims.
“Terminator” actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 76, is qualified to joke about the pacemaker he just had inserted.
“I had surgery last Monday to just be a machine,” Schwarzenegger said last Monday on his daily radio show, Arnold's Pump Club. Electronic warfare.
The machine joke is a reference to his old role as The Terminator, a cyborg with living tissue atop a robotic skeleton.
Arnold Schwarzenegger previously underwent three heart operations where he had artificial valves inserted, before a pacemaker was needed to achieve a more balanced heart rhythm.
He said on the podcast that he was actually on Friday of the same week at a big environmental event with Jane Fonda.
“No one would have thought I was starting the week with surgery,” said the actor, who is also a former governor of California. In April, he begins recording the second season of his Netflix series FUBAR. There, Schwarzenegger plays a CIA agent who discovers that his daughter, played by Monica Barbaro, has also chosen the same career.
– I can't train hard in the gym for a while, but I will be 100 percent ready for “FUBAR” next month, he promised his fans.
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