Veteran Hong Kong actor Sean Lau revealed on Carol Cheng's YouTube show that a tuberculosis diagnosis in his youth prevented him from studying abroad and led him to pursue an acting career.
Sean Lau revealed in Carol Cheng's YouTube talk show recently that he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in his youth and lost the opportunity to study overseas. The 60-year-old was a guest on Hong Kong actress-host Carol Cheng's YouTube talk show The Do Show, where she asked him how he lost the chance to study in Canada. 'I had lung disease. During my physical examination, I was found to have tuberculosis.
I was unable to leave Hong Kong and received treatment for six months,' Sean revealed in an episode released on Dec 12.'Many years later, I spoke to a doctor. It turned out that this disease was very common back then. I was told that I was very lucky, because (contracting tuberculosis) would have been fatal in the earlier days,' he said. When Carol, 67, said that a movie character who contracted tuberculosis often had a tragic ending, Sean completed her sentence by adding: 'They would usually vomit blood.''I was around 15 or 16 years old then… In fact, after I was diagnosed, I didn't think I had a lung disease. I played football after school until I was exhausted. I didn't feel out of breath or cough, let alone vomit blood,' Sean shared. As he lost his opportunity to go for higher education in Canada, Sean went to work as a messenger after graduating from school.His father saw a TVB advertisement on their acting classes and asked him to go for it.Then, a postman he had met through work said the same to him, adding that Chow Yun Fat was also a postman before.Sean told Carol: 'I realised once you are about to get into something, sometimes it's not up to you to decide, the matter will push you forward into it.' He participated in TVB's acting classes in 1983, when he was 17, and made his showbiz debut in 1984 in the drama Draw Out the Rainbo
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