Say what you want about Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the guy’s had a life. The actor, bodybuilding icon, and former governor of the state of California has apparently started taking things a little easier at the age of 74, as he told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday that his mornings now involve early rising in order to feed his impressively odd menagerie of animals. The picture of a slippers-clad Arnold shuffling into the kitchen to share oatmeal cookies with a mini-horse, mini-donkey, and a couple of dogs is both adorable and weird enough to seem right for a person whose life has been a half-century of eventful celebrity.
Striking a few bodybuilding poses for old times’ sake, Schwarzenegger was otherwise comfy regaling Kimmel with some other anecdotes befitting a lifetime of gung-ho Hollywood ambition. If you’re Arnold, of course you’re going to share office space with Johnny Carson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Oliver Stone at the same time, and have to shepherd your guests past the stench of Stone’s constant marijuana smoke. Plus, you’ll have to field post-governorship questions from Kimmel about whether or not it’s business as usual for a head of state to flush confidential and incriminating documents down the crapper in a rush to cover up a spot of treason. (For the record, Schwarzenegger claims that that’s not something he did, although the plus-sized john he dutifully installed for tenant Shaq probably could have handled the job.)
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