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Anthony Anderson is ‘Team Vaccine’ and wants everyone to know it.
After getting his shot in early March, “I didn’t feel anything afterwards. A slight sore arm, just like everybody else,” he tells Rubenstein, adding that his preexisting conditions made him much more concerned about the effects of the virus than the side effects of the vaccine.
“More importantly, I’m 50 years old. I’m an African-American male. I have a pre-existing condition, with Type 2 diabetes,” he says. “My mother is close to 70. African-American female, overweight, smoker, Type 2 diabetic. So, it was important for us to get vaccinated.”
Seeing his mom is a big reason why Anderson teamed up with Advil for its #aftermyshot campaign, to bring awareness to any concerns about shot side effects (and the other benefits, once the side effects subside).
“For me, it means being able to hug and kiss my mom on a daily basis now,” he said. “Having [people] over to the house for cookouts in the backyard, family dinners, and taking holidays, and now that the world is opening up, traveling again. That’s what it’s about for us.”
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Check out more from Anderson’s interview below onPEOPLE Every Day, airing now oniHeartMedia,Apple podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher,Amazon Musicor wherever you listen to your podcasts.
While he’s happy that the post-vaccine world is returning to “normal,” he does have something sad ahead: the final season ofBlack-ish, which will air in 2022.
“It’s bittersweet, but it’s best to go out on top, while everybody’s still a huge fan of the show and we have a huge following,” he explains. “We don’t want to lag the show and just be holding on and be like, ‘Oh, y’all should’ve left six years ago.’ "
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What can fans look forward to? “We’re going to go out with a bang. We have an entire season to wrap this up, and to go out on our own accord. So that’s the beautiful thing about it,” he says.
And though he promises that the show will “tie up any loose ends that there may have been” so there’s “no question about anything,” he also promises thatthe show will address the deeper issuesthat its handled so beautifully in the past: “We’ll talk about things that are affecting us in this world, and in the community in particular."'
source: people.com
