Jennifer Jason Leigh has credited The Hateful Eight for resurrecting her career after revealing that she was ready to give up on acting.

The Hollywood-born star, 53, had slipped into the acting wilderness but now finds herself nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar for playing gang leader Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s western.

Leigh married screenwriter Noah Baumbach in 2005 and they had a son, Rohmer, five years later. They divorced in 2013. She told the Standard: “Things are very different to a few years ago. I didn’t think I’d be in this position again and I really appreciate it now. I had a child and I stopped working for a while because I wanted to not work, to be a mother.

“It can be harder when you get out of the film world. But I had made my peace — I was fine with it, I thought, ‘This is where my life is right now’.

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“I felt like I had a really nice run and worked with some wonderful actors. Maybe it was time to do something else, maybe move into writing, maybe directing again — and then this happened.”

Leigh, who found fame in 1982 teen hit Fast Times At Ridgemont High, also revealed an antique guitar smashed by Kurt Russell’s character in The Hateful Eight was worth $40,000 — although this was kept secret from the actor.

“It was an 1860s Martin guitar and I had wanted to keep it as my memento,” she said. “But then Kirk decimated it during filming — my reaction is real because I was in so much shock. We all thought Quentin was going to use a cheap prop but he used the real one.”