Even though it’s probably hard to imagine but, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he heavily considered casting Jennifer Lawrence for a role in the Hateful Eight movie.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tarantino revealed he wanted to cast Jennifer Lawrence for the role of fugitive Daisy Domergue, a role that would later go to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
So why didn’t Jennifer Lawrence work with Quentin Tarantino?
Apparently she didn’t have enough time to work on The Hateful Eight.
“I’m a huge Jennifer Lawrence fan,” he says. “I think I’ve been on record of saying that her and David O. Russell’s relationship is very William Wyler-Bette Davis like, and that’s a good thing to be like. And I can see her doing a good job with this role, so we went to talk about it and everything. She was just doing me a courtesy to see me, I think. She was doing Joy. She had to all this publicity on the Hunger Gamesmovies. There was just no f*cking way in the world that she was available. Having said that, I’m glad I didn’t cast somebody that young. I think I absolutely positively made the right choice, as far as the ages of the characters.”
Considering the reviews for Jennifer Jason Leigh’s performance has worked out for the best. Later in the interview, Quentin Tarantino pointed out how he ended up being drawn to Leigh’s acting abilities and agreed she was the right woman to play Daisy.
“There was a throwback to Reservoir Dogs quality to this whole [movie] so there was this kind of full circle quality going on,” says Tarantino. “So I was like, the actress should be from that same boat as the [other] actors, and there were about three actresses from that period that really kind of made an indelible mark on me. I started going on little film festivals of the three, and frankly, it was the Jennifer Jason Leigh film festival that I enjoyed the most.”
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is actually doing extremely well in the Box Office as well, despite a boycott by police unions. In fact, Deadline reports that The Hateful Eight is selling out across theaters across the United States.
