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Not all heroes put on capes. Typically they write massive checks.
That’s simply what Eva Longoria did for the “John Wick” movie, according to a Business Insider report.
In honor of the hit film’s tenth anniversary, co-director Chad Stahelski talked to the publication and shared how they ran out of cash earlier than they started filming.
“We have been lower than per week out, and we misplaced nearly $6 million on a spot financing,” he mentioned. “We have been financing independently to get the bond, however one of many buyers couldn’t increase the cash in time.”
Stahelski’s co-director David Leitch and star Keanu Reeves had invested their very own cash, and one of many movie’s producers, Basil Iwanyk, had maxed out three bank cards attempting to get the revenge-action film made.
Simply when it regarded prefer it will not be taking place, expertise company CAA, which was placing the financing collectively, provided a few of their shoppers the chance to speculate, in keeping with Stahelski. Longoria stepped up.
“She got here to the rescue, and she or he supplied the hole financing, actually lower than 24 hours earlier than we needed to lock the doorways on the film and stroll away,” Stahelski mentioned.
He added that Iwanyk didn’t reveal her participation till after the 2014 film turned a success. It led to a few sequels.
Longoria, who got here to fame starring on “Determined Housewives,” has gone on to a profitable producing profession, together with the collection Lifetime’s “Devious Maids” and the relationship actuality collection “Prepared for Love.”