I wrote this down while watching the video (wich contains several other cast and crew interviews, you can probably get it at ebay) so
if there are some typos, my mistake.

Rachel Weisz, hello, and thank you for taking some time out of the filming of "the mummy returns"!

Rachel: Hi!

I wonder, were you surprised by the enormous succes of "the mummy"?

Rachel:I was surprised. I think we were all surprised. I mean, we all dreamt
that it would be a succes, but we never dreamt that it would be.. quite
the succes that it was. I was in London at the time, doing a play, and Steve
called me up and said "oh, it's taking this much and that much
and millions and squillions" and it was very exiting but seemed quite
unreal to me at the time.

Now, you fight with a sword in "the mummy returns", and, I'm told, wear a gold bikini?

Rachel: Yes. Ancient Egyptian Gold bikini...

Wich is something.... The video users will probably use the pause button alot, I can imagine

Rachel: (laughs)

Tell us about that?

Rachel: Well, basicly, I've been training for three months since the beginning
of the film, with a trainer called Hido, flown in from L.A.
He's half japanese and half american, and a martial arts expert who's been
teatching me and Patricia, who plays Meela, how to fight. It's a
martial art where you use two swords, two tridents, so there's four swords fighting
at the same time. It's quite fluid movements and kicks with the legs and blocks.
The very first time Hido showed us the fight, I just sayd "no! there's no way that
I'm ever going to be able to do this!" It would take a lifetime to get really good at it,
but we've learned alot and I feel quite proud..

You know when little boys fight, and they don't have swords, they go "whoosh whoosh!" did you have a sound like that?

Rachel: (makes strange breathing sound) Yes! I did actually! Funny, I found myself doing that..
Actually, while we were doing the fight, filming it, that is, and Steve said "cut", I went.. (gasping for air),
I realized I hadn't breath for the whole fight, about two minutes!
and he said "are you allright?". I said "Yeah, I just keep forgetting to breath."
I think he thought I had gone mad... I just held my breath.

So do you feel cool now, when you're out with your friends and there's a bit of an atmosphere?
Do you think "oh, it's ok, I'm a trained fighter"?

Rachel: um....no. Not really, because I would need my swords. I don't have my swords in my handbag..

You can make those noises very well, though. That would frighten everyone of.

Rachel: Yeah! (makes the funny whoosing noise) Yeah!

So do you have sleepless night before days of filming?

Rahcel: You do have sleepless nights if you don't know the people you're filming with. If it's like
"oh,  Steve and Brendan and John Hannah", you sleep like a baby. That's the luxury of doing sequels,
you know the people you're working with allready.

(you see the cast and crew filming a jungle scene)

Rachel: The set that were on now, is a jungle. and we've chosen to film it in a studio,
instead of outside on location. In the thirties and forties,
they used to move the outdoors indoors, and after that it became very unfashionable because
people thought it looked tokey (?) or it didn't
look naturalistic. But since this movie isn't naturalistic, they've opted for this slightly hightened (?),
slightly surreal look to it. Nowadays they
could easily afford to shoot it outside in a real jungle, but they've chosen a set,
so it has this 1930, oldfashioned feel to it.