Eva Longoria Still Making Money From ‘John Wick’

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Eva Longoria is being hailed as one of the people who made the “John Wick” franchise possible, and she now says she didn’t fully realize what she was doing.

IN an interview with Business InsiderLongoria spoke about investing in the 2014 hit film after the budget fell short before filming began.

Co-director Chad Stahelski had told the publication how co-director David Leitch and star Keanu Reeves had invested their own money, and one of the film’s producers, Basil Iwanyk, had maxed out three credit cards in an attempt to get the revenge action film made.

Longoria, Stahelski said, “came to the rescue and she provided the gap financing, literally less than 24 hours before we had to lock the doors on the movie and walk away,” after the talent agency CAA, which put together the financing, offered some of their clients opportunity to invest.

“My bankroll was very new and it was a lot of money and I was like, ‘So how does it work?’ I had no idea,” Longoria says now. “I’d love to say I was an investment genius, and I knew it, and I calculated my risk. No, none of that.”

She confirmed the information about CAA, explaining “An agent, and he wasn’t even my agent, he called me and said, ‘You have money, you have to put your money here’.”

“And I didn’t even know how a movie was made,” Longoria said. “I thought, ‘What do you mean by gap funding?'”

It ignited a passion in Longoria, who has produced several projects.

She said she is still benefiting financially from her original investment.

“My husband is friends with the manager of Lionsgate and he will sometimes say to him, ‘I see we wrote Eva a check this week,'” she said. “But the geniuses were Chad and David and the star that was Keanu. I just wrote the check.”