Actress Q’orianka Kilcher has filed a landmark lawsuit against filmmaker James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company, alleging that her facial features were used without consent in the creation of the character Neytiri in the 2009 blockbuster Avatar.
First reported by Variety, the filing claims Cameron used a photograph of Kilcher taken when she was 14 years old, shortly after her breakout role as Pocahontas in The New World, as a key visual reference for the design of the Na’vi heroine.
