Brendan Fraser, who reprises his role as adventurer Rick O'Connell in the upcoming action film
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, told reporters that he missed his former co-star Rachel Weisz, who did not return for the sequel.
"I felt Rachel's absence when I read the screenplay the first time, I will cop to that," Fraser said in a group interview this week in Beverly Hills, Calif. "We were partners. We were colleagues. We were friends, and I couldn't read the screenplay and not think about hearing her say it this way or that way. We had that chemistry."