{"id":12545,"date":"2021-09-20T03:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2021-09-20T03:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:39:53","slug":"chris-rock-reveals-he-has-covid-urges-people-to-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/chris-rock-reveals-he-has-covid-urges-people-to-get-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock Reveals He Has COVID, Urges People to \u2018Get Vaccinated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Actor-comedian\u00a0Chris Rock\u00a0tweeted Sunday that he has COVID-19. \u201cTrust me, you don\u2019t want this. Get vaccinated,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rock\u00a0told Jimmy Fallon\u00a0in May that he had gotten the single-dose Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine, meaning his current case would be a breakthrough instance of\u00a0coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He joked to Fallon, \u201cYou know, I skipped the line. I didn\u2019t care. I used my celebrity, Jimmy,\u201d he told Fallon. \u201cI was like, \u2018Step aside, Betty White. Step aside, old people. Kiss my ass! I did \u2018Pootie Tang.\u2019 Let me on the front of the line.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThat\u2019s the food stamps of vaccines,\u201d he joked about the Johnson &amp; Johnson shot. Comparing it to the movie \u201cTitanic,\u201d he said, \u201cI was like Billy Zane on the Titanic. Leo died! Billy Zane lived to see another day. I don\u2019t want to be Leo at the bottom of the ocean. Billy Zane got another woman after that! You don\u2019t want to be Leo. Well, in real life you want to be Leo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The actor, 56, recently starred in \u201cSaw\u201d sequel \u201cSpiral\u201d and will appear in\u00a0David O. Russell\u2019s next movie, a period film which shot in Los Angeles in early 2021. 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