Yang Mi sacrifices jet black hair for new movie

8 May - Even though her movie did not do well at the box office, Yang Mi recently received praises from her "Nothing Can't Be Undone by a Hotpot" director Ding Sheng for sacrificing her long black locks to play a redhead.

As reported on Sina News, the actress, who plays a mysterious woman in the movie, was asked by the director to have a "particularly strong red hair" to create a sharp contrast between the character's before and after images.

Yang said that she found it quite interesting herself, but that the process itself was quite difficult. As her hair is jet black, the actress had to have her hair bleached white first before they went on to dye her hair red.

The whole process took seven and a half hours.

She also had to re-dye her hair every three days throughout the filming period, which the actress admitted that it had damaged her hair.

However, despite the sacrifice to her hair, when asked how she felt about the whole process, she responded simply, "I dyed my hair red just to make the character look like she is not that easy to bully."

(Photo Source: Yang Mi Weibo, SINA)