{"id":623426,"date":"2026-05-04T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:02:10","slug":"blake-livelys-request-to-destroy-it-ends-with-us-dailies-in-question-after-depo-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623426\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively&#8217;s Request to Destroy &#8216;It Ends with Us&#8217; Dailies in Question After Depo Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Blake Lively<br \/>\n                          Allegedly Asked Sony Exec to Destroy &#8216;It Ends with Us&#8217; Dailies &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Said She Didn&#8217;t in Deposition<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 4, 2026<br \/>\n                            10:30 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260503_15e828b408e140e0b5bf84d313492489\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9e0d2c52-1ecb-4189-8a83-d7d02778941e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15e828b408e140e0b5bf84d313492489_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/blake-lively\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> said under oath she never asked anyone to destroy raw footage from &#8220;It Ends with Us&#8221; &#8230; but an email from an executive at Sony indicates that might not be true.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; during Lively&#8217;s deposition in the case on July 31, 2025 last year, she was questioned about whether she had asked &#8220;anyone from Sony to destroy the dailies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know &#8230; a daily is a clip of short raw, unedited footage shot during a single day of film production. The footage is quickly processed and reviewed by directors to make sure the shots look correct and that there aren&#8217;t any glaring issues.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lively responded to the question &#8230; &#8220;No, I never asked anyone to destroy dailies, no.&#8221; When asked if she ever requested anyone to instruct Sony on her behalf, she also replied that she did not.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260503_9050a3a7cd434e5c8b23efc5776d7aca\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9e0d2c52-1ecb-4189-8a83-d7d02778941e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9050a3a7cd434e5c8b23efc5776d7aca_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-ange-giannetti-text-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the transcript of a message has been entered into evidence &#8212; from Sony executive Ange Giannetti to then-President of Sony Pictures&#8217; Motion Picture Group Josh Greenstein &#8211;from September 3, 2024 &#8230; about a month after the film&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>Giannetti writes, &#8220;call me when you can. not urgent but blake asking us to destroy some of the dailies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20241227_79cffb91a6024014a9302fff7ee68b04\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9e0d2c52-1ecb-4189-8a83-d7d02778941e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/79cffb91a6024014a9302fff7ee68b04_md.jpg\" alt=\"justin baldoni blake lively sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>She adds that she&#8217;s never heard of a star doing this when no nudity was involved &#8212; it would make sense celebs wouldn&#8217;t want clips of their private areas just floating around out there &#8212; but she says she wants to talk to Greenstein about what they will and won&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>Ange wrote she was going to ask a woman named Bridget to contact the vendors they were working with to delete the dailies. It&#8217;s unclear if she went through with that plan.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d2ad24be2cb477286f4bfddd34edc53_md.png\" alt=\"021126 bryan freedman kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to Blake about this discrepancy &#8230; so far, no word back.<\/p>\n<p>As you know &#8230; Blake and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/justin-baldoni\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Baldoni<\/a>&#8216;s trial is set to start in just a couple of weeks. Lively&#8217;s lawsuit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/02\/blake-lively-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-dismissed\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut down<\/a> by a judge &#8230; who dismissed 10 of their 13 claims against Baldoni earlier last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Allegedly Asked Sony Exec to Destroy &#8216;It Ends with Us&#8217; Dailies &#8230; Said She Didn&#8217;t in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-623426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}