Security scare on set of Nicole Kidman's new movie, Destroyer

An active shooter was spotted near the set of Nicole Kidman's latest film, Destroyer, while filming was underway. Photo / Getty Images

Nicole Kidman has opened up about a terrifying incident which occurred on the set of her most recent movie, Destroyer.

The Aussie actor plays an LAPD detective in the film, but fiction quickly became reality when an active shooter was spotted near the set of the movie.

"We were in South Central LA shooting and they were like, 'Get inside, there's a shooter, a live shooter,'" Kidman said during a BAFTA Life in Pictures event in London.

"I'm like, 'What?' I've got the (prop) gun and I'm out on the street and they dragged me in, and I hit the floor because there was a shooter and helicopters."

According to the film's synopsis, Kidman plays detective Erin Bell "who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past".

Kidman became somewhat of gun expert for Destroyer and spent a month training at a shooting range before filming began.

"All of the weapons, I can load them, I can fire them, I know them," Kidman told Variety.

"I trained for about a month, but every day. It was cold, and I was tired, and I would just train. And my hands cramped, because I don't have big hands and I don't have strong hands. It was awful."

But what was even more awful for Kidman was the emotional toll of playing a tortured detective.

"I was very deeply depressed," she told Variety.

"It was the point where my husband was like, 'When the hell is this going to end?'"

Destroyer is due out next month.