Quentin Tarantino is apparently a Jennifer Lawrence fan and planned the casting for 'The Hateful Eight' with the 'Hunger Games' star in mind as the outlaw Daisy even before the 'Reservoir Dogs' director wrote the script. Tarantino, who recently came to blows with Disney over 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' occupying the Cinerama Dome in LA, speaks of how that plan progressed.

"I'm a huge Jennifer Lawrence fan. 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 do all this publicity on the 'Hunger Games' movies. There was just no ******* 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."

Indeed Jennifer Jason Leigh, who eventually landed the role opposite Channing Tatum, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth a bevy of excellent cast members held her own in the role.  

Of the slants on misogyny thrown at her and Tarantino, Leigh says: "[Quentin] doesn't have an ounce of misogyny in him. It's not in his writing. It's not in his being. He writes very brave, bold, insane, fabulous women. Nobody writes women like he does."

Leigh in fact celebrates Daisy: "She's a leader, and she's tough. She's hateful and a survivor and scrappy."

'The Hateful Eight' has been a strong contender in the box office since it opened on Christmas day. Similarly, Lawrence's comedy-drama 'Joy' with Robert de Niro and Bradley Cooper has been having great turn-outs and is proof of Lawrence's crowd-drawing power.

Jennifer Lawrence's net worth is now at $60 million, with her pay-grade from 'The Hunger Games' ranking her as the current highest paid female performer in Hollywood.