The Cast and Crew Talk About "The Mummy Returns"
anticipated working through some of the basics of filmmaking while filming “The Mummy Returns” with first-time feature film actors The Rock and Freddie Boath (who plays the son of Fraser and Weisz’s characters) cast, one may not think that Sommers would be prepared to deal with medical emergencies on the set. However, with majority of the original cast getting sick during “The Mummy”’s shoot from the food served in Morocco, Sommers was prepared for anything and everything--- even his newest star being sick as a dog.
“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
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