As it turns out, Eva Longoria played a large part in making that happen. A decade ago, when directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch were putting the final touches on the Keanu Reeves revenge movie, they received news no filmmaker wants to hear: the production had run out of money. We were less than a week out and we lost almost $6 million on a gap financing, Stahelski told Business Insider in an interview celebrating the movie's tenth anniversary. We were financing independently to get the bond, but one of the investors couldn't raise the money in time.
But behind the scenes, someone threw a Hail Mary. CAA, which was putting the financing together, offered some of its actors who had bankroll the opportunity to invest, Leitch explained to BI. It promised they'd be the first to get paid back. Eva Longoria answered the call, and John Wick became her first major producer credit. Since becoming a household name on the hit 2000s TV series Desperate Housewives, Longoria has become a producing power player.
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