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Eva Longoria still making money from ‘John Wick’ – FBC News
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Eva Longoria still making money from ‘John Wick’ – FBC News

Eva Longoria still making money from ‘John Wick’ – FBC News

(Source: CNN Entertainment)

Eva Longoria is being praised as one of the people who did it “John Wick” franchise is possible and now he says he didn’t quite understand what he was doing at first.

In an interview with Business Insider, Longoria talked about investing in the 2014 hit movie due to a lack of budget before shooting began.

Co-director Chad Stahelski told the publication how co-director David Leitch and star Keanu Reeves invested their own money, and co-producer Basil Iwanyk maxed out three credit cards to buy the revenge action movie. made.

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Longoria, Stahelski said: “The signing came and he secured the financing for the gap literally less than 24 hours before we locked the doors of the film and walked away.” After CAA, the talent agency that provided the financing, offered an investment opportunity to some of its clients.

“My money account was very new and it was a huge amount of money, and I was like, ‘So how does it work?’ I thought. I had no idea,” Longoria says now.

“I would like to say that I am an investment genius and I know and calculate my risk. No, none of these.”

He confirmed the information about CAA and made the following statement: “A manager and he wasn’t even my manager. “He called me and said, ‘You have money, you should put your money here.'”

“And I didn’t even know how to make a movie.” Longoria said.

“’What do you mean by gap financing?’ I thought.

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

He said he is still benefiting financially from his initial investment.

“My husband is friends with the president of Lionsgate, and sometimes he says to him, ‘I see we wrote Eva a check this week.'” he said.

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