New York, Dec 22 : Eva Mendes' latest flick `The Spirit' forced her to divulge a secret she had harboured for years - she can''t swim.

The 34-year-old actress thought that she would never get the film after she noticed the prolonged underwater action scene in the script.

However, she did not have to worry because the movie is a stylised comic book film, and computer graphics were to be used for shooting the scene.

"Cut to me harnessed up 30 feet in the air, with wind machines blowing on me. I felt ridiculous and I thought, ''How is this going to look?'' But it looked great," the New York Daily News quoted her as saying. (ANI)