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Actress Sues James Cameron, Says He Used Teen Photo of Her to Create 'Avatar' Main Character

Complex·tara mahadevan·25 days ago
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James Cameron and The Walt Disney Co. are facing a new lawsuit from a woman who alleges that the filmmaker used her likeness to create the facial features of one of Avatar ’s main characters. According to NBC News , Q’orianka Kilcher claims that in 2005, when she was 14 years old, Cameron “extracted her facial features” from a photograph he saw in the Los Angeles Times of her as Pocahontas in the film The New World . The lawsuit alleges that Camera “directed his design team to use it as the foundation for the character of Neytiri.” Also included in the complaint are snippets from Cameron and his production team discussing how Kilcher served as inspiration for Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldaña. “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,” the lawsuit says.…

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