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Works in this franchise with their own Trivia pages:

  • The Mummy (1999)
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: While they weren't as depicted in these movies the Medjay really existed, initially as a culture that the Egyptians often hired as soldiers and guards and later as a general name for a job, namely protecting things and places important to the Pharaohs.
  • Fake Mixed Race: Evelyn and her brother Jonathan both have an Egyptian mother and an English father, but are played by native British actors.
  • Fake Nationality: Almost nothing but Fake Nationalities. Rachel Weisz really is English, Jet Li actually was born in China, and all the 'American cowboys' are played by Americans, but nobody who played an Egyptian character was actually Egyptian, or even Arab or African. Oded Fehr is Israeli, Arnold Vosloo is a South African of Dutch descent (Afrikaner), Patricia Velasquez is indigenous Venezuelan (Wayuu, to be specific), Erick Avari is Indian and Dwayne Johnson is an American—of Samoan and African heritage, mind you. O'Connell's actor is Canadian-American, Jonathan's is Scottish, Beni (who is supposed to be Hungarian) is played by an Irish-American guy from Chicago. From the third movie we have Maria Bello (American), Michelle Yeoh (Malaysian) and Russel Wong (American). Moreover, Evy and Jonathan's mother was supposedly Egyptian, but John Hannah is not of Egyptian, African or even middle-eastern descent.

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