Nicole Kidman had quite the terrifying scare on set of her new movie The Destroyer.
The Big Little Lies actress reveals that she was forced to flee the set after a shooter went on the run in the local area of south central Los Angeles.
During her Life In Pictures talk at Bafta on Wednesday, Nicole detailed the heart-racing incident which resulted in her falling to the ground in the panicked rush to get to safety.
The 51-year-old actress recalled: Youre on a limited budget and what I call “scrappy” filmmaking where youre just getting it done, you dont have a lot of money, youre out on location.
We were in south central L.A. at one point shooting and they were like, “Get inside theres a shooter! A live shooter.” Im like, “What?”
I put down my gun and get out onto the street and theyre grabbing me, I hit the floor because there was a shooter, helicopters. Thats the kind of location we shot the movie on.
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The Destroyer sees Nicole playing Erin Bell, an LAPD detective who must infiltrate a gang she once tried to take down while dealing with a strained relationship with her daughter.
Musing on her transition from filming HBOs Big Little Lies to the gritty feature film, Nicole explained: Its a wonderful thing as an actor to go from say Big Little Lies to that. That for me is the magnificence of being given a chance to create things and people taking risks.
Nobody would ever see Big Little Lies and then go, “Oh, Im going to give you Erin Bell”. But [director] Karyn [Kusama] took a chance on me.
Nicole recently revealed how she suffered deep depression as a result of the challenging role and now admits it was an uncomfortable time.
The Hollywood star said: It was uncomfortable for me as Nicole in that state for a long period of time. It wasnt pleasant but I do think you give things up artistically. You commit and sometimes that means you commit more at a particularly time.
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Im lucky that I have a family that understands what I do. My young children have a fascination and interests in storytelling now. Their imaginations have been strengthened by watching me, even though their favourite film of mine so far is Aquaman.
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But they do give me the place to go creative as does some kids so Im very lucky. But this did take more than I thought it was going to take and it did take me off into a limbo state that I existed in for a little period of time.
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