Sir Ian McKellen became the newest star to get vaccinated for COVID-19, announcing in a tweet Thursday he felt "very lucky to have had the vaccine" and recommended others do the same. The 81-year-old stage and screen actor was given the first of two Pfizer vaccine doses Wednesday at the Queen Mary's University Hospital in London, per the BBC and an ITV story that McKellen retweeted. In a video clip, he received the shot, then threw up his arms and gave the nurse an elbow bump. "It is invasive of course, it looks like a weapon – a needle – but it isn't, it's a friend," he told reporters afterward. "I would encourage everybody to do the sensible thing, not just for themselves but for everybody else because if you're virus-free that helps everybody else, doesn't it?"