Zack Attack! Mark-Paul Gosselaar Looks Back at 10 Roles

The TV and Straight-to-DVD Movies He'd Rather Not Talk About (1995-1997)
Various paycheck roles
The three years after Saved by the Bell ended were tough, Gosselaar admits. He didn't get offered the kind of projects he expected to; he only got offered ''the ones that even I close my eyes when I watch.'' (We don't think he's joking when he says he wouldn't tell people why he was going out of town, when he'd leave to shoot one of them.) Pictured is our selected sampling. From top to bottom: 1997's Dying to Belong, which starred Hilary Swank; 1996's She Cried No (a.k.a. Freshman Fall), in which he plays a frat boy who date-rapes Candace Cameron(!); and 1996's Specimen, in which he learns that he is alien spawn. ''Those three years really opened my eyes to what could happen,'' he says. ''That's what shaped me to be very, very appreciative of the work that I have now.''