NEW YORK, April 29 -- Lawyers for actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni sparred in court yesterday over Lively's potential bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in an upcoming civil trial stemming from her allegations of sexual harassment during the filming of their 2024 romantic drama It Ends With Us.

The highly anticipated civil trial set to begin in May will be limited to Lively's retaliation claims against Baldoni's production company after a judge threw out her sexual harassment claims. Both actors are expected to testify about Lively's claims after a steady drip of details emerged in more than a year of acrimonious and widely publicised litigation, though neither attended yesterday's hearing.

Baldoni and his company ...