Mummy Facts
All you die hard mummy
fans probably knew all of this allready, but anyway....
PS: In risk of sounding
really whiny, this list is put together by me. If you wish to use it, please
gimme some credit+letting me know...?
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The character Evelyn Carnahan
is based on a real life person, the daughter of a famous brittish egyptologist
who lived in the thirthies...
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...so is Imothep, the mummy.
Check out this article
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Brendan Fraser nearly died because
of an accident during the hanging scene in the first mummy movie
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Rachel Weisz had to loose weight
for the part of Evelyn, but didn't mind
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Ankh Sun Amun (pronounced anak-sunamun)
means "the living daughter of the sun" in ancient egyptian (Ankh-Life/living,
Sun-Daughter, Amun-The sun)
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Rachel and the rest of the cast
and crew hated the anti social camels they filmed with in the first movie,
so they got new ones for The Mummy Returns
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Patricia Velazques had about
80 bruises at the end of filming The Mummy Returns
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Brendan Fraser got injured in
The Mummy Returns aswell, he broke a rib
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Stephen Sommers (the director)
doesn't like stuntmen, so either Rachel or Brendan had stand ins in any
of the fighting scenes.;"If you see Rachel get knocked down it's Rachel
being knocked down. If you se mee thrown across the room, it's me being
thrown across the room" - Brendan
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The first Mummy was filmed in
Morocco, as it was too dangerous to film it in Egypt.
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Arnold Vosloo was terrified
of not being able to breath as he was shut into the sarchophagus (the one
with the flesh eating scarabs...) during the making of film one...
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...he allso had to do a painful
waxing to remove all hair on his body every day during filming. After a
while he refused to do it, and had to shave it off instead.
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