Eva Longoria is still making money on John Wick – FBC News

(Source: CNN Entertainment)

Eva Longoria is praised as one of those who created “John Wick” franchise is possible, and she now says she didn’t fully realize what she was doing at first.

In an interview with Business Insider, Longoria spoke about investing in the hit 2014 film after the budget dried up before filming began.

Co-director Chad Stahelski told the publication how co-director David Leitch and star Keanu Reeves put up their own money and one of the film’s producers, Basil Iwanyk, maxed out three credit cards trying to get the revenge thriller. did.

Longoria, Stahelski said: “Came to the rescue and secured the necessary funding literally less than 24 hours before we had to close the theater doors and leave.” after talent agency CAA, which was raising funding, offered some of its clients the opportunity to invest.

“My bankroll was brand new and it was a lot of money and I thought, ‘So how does this work?’ I had no idea,” Longoria speaks now.

“I would like to say that I was an investment genius, I just knew and calculated my risk. No, none of that.

She confirmed the information about SAA, explaining “The agent, and he wasn’t even my agent, he called me and said, ‘You have money, you should put it here.’

“And I didn’t even know how movies were made” Longoria said.

“I said, ‘What do you mean deficit financing?’

This ignited a passion in Longoria, who went on to produce numerous projects.

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

“My husband is friends with the head of Lionsgate, and he sometimes tells him, ‘I see we wrote Eve a check this week.'” she said.

“But Chad and David were the geniuses, and Keanu was the star. I just wrote a check.