Evelyn in The Mummy (1999) is My Ideal Modern Woman
5 min readMay 8, 2021
There are certain movies that I can watch over and over again. They’re like old friends with whom time is never wasted. They make me laugh, cry, or just feel warm and fuzzy with nostalgia.
The Mummy (1999) is one of those movies. If you haven’t seen it, here is the gist: Evelyn Carnahan, played by Rachel Weisz, is a librarian/aspiring archaeologist working in 1920s Cairo and…
