Chinese actress Sun Li has been known to be one of China’s TV queens with her projects often becoming ratings hits, and her acting skills widely praised. Recently, the 43-year-old actress suffered from a burst blood vessel in her left eye while filming a new drama.
She wrote: “Yesterday I filmed the angriest, most anxious scene in the entire drama, the kind where you’re so anxious you have to scream with all your strength until you feel like exploding… The weather was also extremely hot. After filming, both the other actor and I felt like we had heatstroke, nauseous and dizzy, so we quickly drank a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi. Today I looked at my eye and noticed some blood vessels had burst. Did I literally explode a blood vessel from anger?”
Apparently, her sudden spike in blood pressure due to intense emotional stress may have ruptured tiny blood vessels on her eye. The condition is said to be painless, does not affect vision, and generally heals on its own, In recent years, Sun Li has suffered physical stress due to the intensity of her performances. While filming The Dark Romance, she portrayed a victim of emotional manipulation and endured 48 consecutive hours of emotional scenes, reportedly collapsing from exhaustion on set and vocal cord damage. The actress is recently back filming the drama Survive in Xiamen, and Netizens have described her as “acting with her life on the line.”
