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The actress Patricia Velasquez was quite successful playing the character Anck Su Namun in the films “The Mummy” and “The Return of the Mummy“. She began her career as a model, and in an old interview with website Cinema, she explained how her interest in acting began.
“I started dancing when I was only 5 years old and I never really wanted to be an actress because that’s what every model does. But then I did my first film with Jean Reno and fell madly in love with him. This film was about saving an indigenous village in the Amazon, and as an indigenous South American I was like, ‘I have to do this.’ So I went to the Amazon for 3 months and it completely changed my life.”
Afterward, Velásquez said he had no idea The Mummy would be so successful.
“And when I came back I continued to model, but after two or three years I realized that I really wanted to be an actor. So when I played my small part in the first The Mummy, I had no idea it was going to be such a big hit everywhere. For me it was more like a modeling job as I had to wear all this special body makeup which took 13 hours,” she said.
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