Actors are so often insulated from what they're supposed to be going through. It's always fake, especially with computer graphics.
By SAG law they had to have water tested. But it looked pretty disgusting. I was wearing a wetsuit underneath my clothes, but I didn't feel very protected.
Cabin Fever was like one or two takes at the most. So in that film we probably did six or seven takes of me getting puked on from different angles.
Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
Cabin Fever was tough, because I didn't really know what I was getting into. I thought, Low-budget horror film in the woods, sounds like fun. It was like guerilla filmmaking.
I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.
I hope to always be doing some low budget things.
I like the down and dirty stuff.
I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
I think every show has sort of a built-in time clock. We definitely don't want to become Old Man Meets World! When the show is over!
I think we'll make sure we have Boy Meets World reunions.
I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.
I'm sure there are lots of really funny, wacked rumors going around about me, but I'm attracted to the people who are over it.
Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
We shot the movie in Prague, and by law they have to hire a lot of local crew people. So our caterers were local and they would make lots of Prague-styled food.
We were making this medieval movie within the movie. They had me train with a sword-fighting expert who had done Braveheart.
You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
When Rider isn't working, he stays with his family in a redwood forest near the California coast.
Rider says that even though Boy Meets World has been over for six years, he's recognized on the streets more today for his role as Shawn Hunter than he was when the show was still in production.
Rider hopes to receive an M.F.A. in writing.
In 1998, Rider had a role in the movie "My Giant."
He played the role of Chick on a show called "Pepper Dennis."
He is set to be in a movie called "Doubting Thomas" in late 2006.
After playing the role of Shawn Hunter in Boy Meets World, Rider now plays the role of Chick in Pepper Dennis.
His favorite candy is Smarties.
Rider says that his favorite Boy Meets World episode is "Cory's Alternative Friends".
He enjoys backpacking, swimming, white-water rafting, soccer, rollerblading, writing, and reading poetry.
In 1994, Rider was nominated for Best Youth Comedian at the Young Artist's Award.
In 1998, Rider wrote a short book of poetry entitled "On The Impulse".
Rider, with Boy Meets World co-star Danielle Fishel, made a rollerblading video called "Grinder In Line In" in 1993.
Rider once donated money to support a wolf cub and the integration of wolves back into Yellowstone National Park.
Rider and his family formed a production company called Redwood Shire Productions.
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