Eva Longoria is being praised as one of the people who made the “John Wick” franchise possible, and she now says she didn’t fully realize at first what she was doing.
In an interview with Business Insider, Longoria talked about investing in the 2014 hit movie after the budget fell short before filming began.
Co-director Chad Stahelski had told the publication about 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 trying to get the revenge-action movie 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 talent agency CAA, which was putting the financing together, offered some of their clients the opportunity to invest.
“My bankroll was very …