When I asked Pratt why he had never shared his role in Lena's story, [...] He seemed nonplussed when I pressed him about the controversy that still surrounds the choice of this test photo. “I haven't paid attention to [the controversy] at all,” he said. "[...] It was just natural that we would use a good-quality image, and some of the best images were in Playboy. It was not sexist."

Besides, no one could have been offended, he told me, because there were no women in the classroom at the time.