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Actress Sues James Cameron and Disney for Stealing Her Likeness for ‘Avatar’ Character
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Actress Sues James Cameron and Disney for Stealing Her Likeness for ‘Avatar’ Character

Rolling Stone·Angie Martoccio·25 days ago
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"Your beauty was my early inspiration for Neytiri," the director allegedly told Indigenous actress and activist Q’orianka Kilcher. "Too bad you were shooting another movie. Next time" An actress has accused James Cameron and Disney for stealing her likeness to create an Avatar character without her knowledge and consent. Indigenous actress and activist Q’orianka Kilcher, who portrayed Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World when she was just 14, filed a lawsuit in California on Tuesday. The complaint alleges that Cameron extracted and replicated Kilcher’s facial features from a published photograph in The Los Angeles Times , using it as the basis of the character Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldaña in all three Avatar films.…

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