Eva Longoria made a gamble investment in Keanu Reeves’ John Wick!Ten years later, she’s made $12 million and counting
The former ‘Desperate Housewives’ star told ‘Business Insider’ about how she came to put money in the Keanu Reeves movie.
Eva Longoria does not appear in the 2014 action hit John Wick. She didn’t write it or direct it, either.
But the movie — starring Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe and Bridget Moynihan — has paid her handsomely over the past decade, thanks to a $6 million investment she was advised to make.
The former Desperate Housewives star revealed to Business Insider how she came to put up a chunk of her own money to help make the movie, which was in danger of falling apart after directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch lost financing at the eleventh hour.
“An agent, and he wasn’t even my agent, he called me and said, ‘You got money, you should put your money here.’ And I didn’t even know how a movie was made. I was like, ‘What do you mean gap financing?’” she told the outlet.
Longoria invested the money, the movie was completed, and it went on to make $86 million at the worldwide box office. In the years since, the former soap opera star has reaped the rewards of her investment, but she told the outlet she isn’t sure how much she’s made. There are, however, a lot of zeroes involved.
