Mummy's little girl goes wild

Rachel Weisz10 April 2012

The Mummy Returns is not like The Mummy at all. It is still Saturday morning cinema stuff but is set ten years later - in the Thirties.

The swashbuckling adventurer Rock O'Connell [Brendan Fraser] is happily married to the academic Evelyn, who I play. They live in London and have an eight-year-old son [Freddie Boath] but their domestic bliss is about to be shattered by the return of the Imhotep, the Mummy, again played by Arnold Vosloo. John Hannah reprises the role of my screen brother, Jonathan, and Stephen Sommers again directs.

This time around I was only in the desert for a week, thank goodness. On Mummy One we had a couple of months there and it was a killer. Most of my scenes in this one were shot in London.

Apart from being a wife and mother my character also has a chick fight with Patricia Valesquez who plays the Mummy's eternal love as well as her 20th-century reincarnation. We had to train for months for about 14 hours a day with a Japanese-American choreographer to get the moves right and learn martial arts. Our fight is an ancient Japanese sword fight and we used two little trident swords, those small ones you spin round your fingers. It was one huge challenge for me, a lot of humour and an awful lot of bashed fingers for both of us.

Sadly I couldn't make the premiere in LA as I was rehearsing on stage at the Almeida in Islington in The Shape Of Things, a new play written and directed by Neil LaBute.

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