Eva Longoria. MICHAEL TRAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Eva Longoria continues to have fun the large monetary success of John Wick.
Greater than a decade after investing $6 million into the film, Longoria, 49, revealed she remains to be getting checks from the 2014 motion thriller movie.
“What I’m pissed off about is I wasn’t related to the remainder of them,” she advised Enterprise Insider in an interview revealed Thursday, October 31. “This was a one-time factor. That was the gamble. However that was my solely mistake, not being hooked up to the entire movies.”
A few week earlier than manufacturing on John Wick started, administrators Chad Stahelski and David Leitch practically ran out of cash after they misplaced nearly $6 million in hole financing. After Longoria stepped in with an funding, the movie was launched and made greater than $86 million worldwide, serving as the start of a profitable franchise with actor Keanu Reeves.
When requested how a lot she has made off of her funding, Longoria replied, “Greater than double, for certain.”
Along with three sequels, the John Wick franchise additionally consists of the prequel tv sequence The Continental, video video games and comedian books.
By the entire expansions, Longoria has been capable of keep in contact with Reeves, 60. Throughout their final reunion, each events couldn’t assist however acknowledge the 10-year anniversary.
“We bumped into one another due to his girlfriend, Alexandra [Grant],” Longoria recalled. “We all know her by means of some pals, and we met her and Keanu at an artwork occasion. Keanu mentioned, ‘I’d like to take you to dinner. We must always have fun 10 years.’ So we toasted to John Wick.”
Longoria admits she is commonly requested to put money into quite a lot of firms and merchandise. Whereas she has mentioned sure to some like Casa Del Sol tequila and the Los Angeles skilled girls’s soccer group Angel Metropolis FC, the actress says key elements play a task in her selections.
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“The issues I put money into should have goal,” she defined. “They should have a perspective. They’ve to repair a market drawback or enhance upon a market drawback.”
Though John Wick was an simple success, Longoria was requested if she would nonetheless be investing if the mission was unsuccessful. The producer believes she could be asking the identical query: “How does my cash earn money?”
“I’ve been obsessive about that,” she mentioned earlier than including her successful mindset. “I need to be creating wealth whereas I’m sleeping.”