My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.
I think it’s that the parent company took out huge loans to buy Redbox. And that’s the streaming service they setup has ongoing costs and overhead, like licencing. And the loans they took out to make their own content.
The actress was born in Cleveland, Ohio. So there’s that.
Hey!! I worked on Supernova! (In the model shop at Digital Domain, running a LaserCam.)
https://www.cafedvd.com/ does rent-by-mail too. Issue for me is that they’re also West Coast, so any request/rental takes a good week to get to the East Coast.
Anybody know any place doing this out East?
My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.