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The Cast and Crew Talk About "The Mummy Returns"

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“The first time I saw The Rock in Morocco he had a mound of food on his plate,” Vosloo recalled. “I asked him if he was going to eat that and he said, ‘Yeah, dude, what do you think?’ I told him he shouldn't knowing how sick we all got the first time around but he insisted that ‘he wrestled at places all over the world’ so I figured alright. Next time I saw him four days later he was running to the bathroom doubled over.”

“I thought I would be okay because the chicken was barbecued, but it's the little things like using the butter when it was in ice,” The Rock said. “I was sick as a dog. It was 100 degrees and I was shaking with blankets over me, outside in the middle of the desert, literally shivering. They think it was food poisoning, they think it was sun stroke... they didn't really know what it was. I didn't know what it was. When you are halfway across the world, away from home and in the middle of the desert with people you really don't know, you start wondering, 'Am I gonna die out here?'”

Despite The Rock falling ill, Sommers knew he had to stay on his shooting schedule. Since “The Mummy Returns” was given a bigger budget in honor of the first “Mummy”’s success, Sommers knew that he had the money to do what his wildest imagination dreamt of-- but couldn’t fully see fulfilled in the first “Mummy”-- and needed all the time he could muster into brainstorming special effect scenes for Industrial Light and Magic to create.

“The limit this time around was only my imagination,” Sommers said. “While at first ILM couldn't do anything I had in the script since the technology needed wasn’t created yet, they knew that in nine to twelve months they would be able to create pigmy mummies and the Scorpion King. I just said so long as they could get it on screen two weeks before the movie opens and not two weeks after I was set.”

Besides having pigmy mummies and the Scorpion King, “The Mummy Returns” also has many computer generated fight scenes and sets. Even The Rock, who has seen his share of real life battles within the WWF, was in awe of what ILM created for the film.

“I was amazed throughout the film and the end just blew me away,” The Rock said. “It was awesome.”