James Cameron and Disney sued for allegedly using actress' likeness without permission in creating Avatar (opens in new tab)

James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company are being sued for unauthorised use of actress Q'orianka Kilcher's likeness without her knowledge and consent. It's alleged that an image of the actress was used by Cameron's design team when he was first creating Avatar to make a foundation for Zoe Saldana's character of Neytiri. In the complaint filing, obtained by Variety, the Indigenous actress claims that at the age of fourteen, Cameron extracted her facial features from a photograph to help crea...