In a new. lawsuit, Indigenous actress Q’orianka Kilcher has sued James Cameron for apparently using her image without permission as part of the director’s record-smashing Avatar film series. As NBC News reported , the lawsuit claims Cameron first took notice of Kilcher, who is Native Peruvian, after seeing her in Terrence Malick’s 2005 film The New World . Kilcher alleges that Cameron then had his design team create moldings, drawings, and 3D renderings modeled after her face, which were later used in developing Neytiri, the Avatar character played by Zoe Saldaña. Reads the suit, “This case exposes how one of Hollywood’s most powerful filmmakers exploited a young Indigenous girl’s biometric identity and cultural heritage to create a record-breaking film franchise — without credit or compensation to her — through a series of deliberate, non-expressive commercial acts.” Of course, the issue goes deeper than just stolen likenesses.…