Patricia Velasquez

Where you’ve seen her:
In a handful of films including Turn It Up, Committed, and most notably in The Mummy and its riveting sequel, The Mummy Returns.

She’s a cheap date:
“When I was a teenager, I wasn’t attractive. And because we had no money, I used to wear my brother’s clothes, so I always looked weird. It wasn’t until I went to college that I started getting noticed. I wanted to eat ice cream and couldn’t because we had no money, so I started hanging out with the guys down the hall because they’d take me out on dates.”

Who says Europeans have bad taste?
“When I came to the States, there were people who would never give me a job. But I already had such a big name from Europe, they eventually had to take me.”

Cat fight!
“We trained for months, and I learned to use blades and knives and swords. It was really hard and hurt my knuckles. I also got hit by Rachel [Weisz while filming The Mummy Returns] a lot. After the first fight, I had, like, 82 bruises on my body.”

April 2001 (#40)