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Salma Hayek Playing as Truska
is a woman who can grow a beard at will and take it back in. She was the one who gave Darren his pirate costume. Truska is from a strange land, and initially spoke in a language that sounds like a seal's bark, but Evra later taught her how to speak English. Apparently, she went skinny dipping in "
the deep blue" with
Vancha March. She can also use her beard as a weapon.
In the 'Lake of Souls' she says that her husband and daughter were killed by an evil fisherman. When we go on to read the book, Darren and Harkat come across a pirate fisherman called Spit Abrams who is a cannibal. So it could be that Truska's husband and daughter were killed, cooked and eaten by Spits.
In the movie, she will be played by Salma Hayek.
