Q’orianka Kilcher says her likeness was used without her consent as the foundation for the character of Neytiri in ‘Avatar.’ She is suing Cameron and Disney.
Q’orianka Kilcher alleges her likeness was used without her consent or knowledge as the foundation for the character of Neytiri in, Cameron extracted her facial features from a photograph and instructed his designers to use it as the basis for Neytiri, played on-screen by“What Cameron did was not inspiration, it was extraction.
He took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, ran them through an industrial production process, and generated billions of dollars in profit without ever once asking her permission. That is not filmmaking.
That is theft,” Kilcher’s lawyer, Arnold P. Peter of Peter Law Group, told“It is deeply disturbing to learn that my face, as a 14-year-old girl, was taken and used without my knowledge or consent to help create a commercial asset that has generated enormous value for Disney and Cameron,” Kilcher said. , a member of Cameron’s staff presented Kilcher with a print of a sketch Cameron had made of the actress, along with a handwritten note that read, “Your beauty was my early inspiration for Neytiri.
Too bad you were shooting another movie. Next time. ” “When I received Cameron’s sketch, I believed it was a personal gesture, at most a loose inspiration tied to casting and my activism. Millions of people opened their hearts to ‘Avatar’ because they believed in its message and I was one of them.
I never imagined that someone I trusted would systematically use my face as part of an elaborate design process and integrate it into a production pipeline without my knowledge or consent. That crosses a major line. This act is deeply wrong,” Kilcher said. Kilcher is seeking compensatory and punitive damages of an undisclosed amount, as well as “corrective public disclosure,” for the alleged use of her likeness.
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