Eva Longoria still makes money from 'John Wick'

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

In an interview with Business Insider, Longoria discussed investing in the 2014 hit film after the budget ran out before filming began.

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

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

“My balance was very new and it was a lot of money, and I asked myself, 'How does this work?' I had no idea,” Longoria says now. “I would like to say that I was an investing genius and just knew what I was doing and calculated my risk. No, none of that.”

Confirming the information about CAA, she explained, “An agent, and he wasn't even my agent, he called me and said, 'You have money, you should put your money here.'”

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

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

She said she still benefits financially from her original investment.

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