I've been very, very lucky. There is no rule or rhyme or reason. Raider plays Max, one of a quartet of paranoid pals, led by sitcom veteran Jon Cryer, on ABC's The Trouble With Normal. He was the happy beneficiary of the tinkering that goes on after pilots have been made and a network has ordered a show. That means the original guy got the boot.
Nobody ever says who the boot-ees are.
But, like Raider, everybody always says how great the anonymous originals were. Stretton was his mentor and director in high school. He was a tremendous influence. Raider trained at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and, after graduating from New York University, did tons of stage work before heading west. His older brother, Andrew, just started his residency in anesthesiology at Jefferson Hospital, and his younger sister, Julia, is going to college in Washington state.