JH: What was Pam Springsteen like? DW: Pam was really a nice lady. She was real low-key. Really, Really, really petite, a really tiny lady and that surprised me. It was funny because I didn't make the realization that she was Bruce Springsteen's siter until half way through the movie when somebody had mentioned it. She was just really really nice. In fact, she took pictures with me...a lot of times you go there and take a polaroid camera or something to record the moment and remember people...so I have like a little mini photo album of the experience...I took photographs with her and all the other people. JH: What was director Michael Simpson like? DW: He was cool with me, he was a great guy. He was really professional, really driven. Like I said, a lot of people were just standing around chattering because it was so cold out there...and I remember him standing there, and he was cold too but he was like, OK, let's make a movie! And then he rushed out into the cold air and everyone was like, OH man, this guy is really pumped. He has a lot of enthusiasm.

Daryl with Pamela Springsteen!

JH:		So what was the atmosphere like on the set? Did everyone have a good time?
DW:		Yeah, it was pretty cool. Everybody was happy, of course, to be working...there wasn't a lot of pressure, for me anyway, as far as performance and getting in-depth into the character because RIFF wasn't really that complex of a character (laughs). I got half way through the film before I made the realization that a lot of the characters had been named after West Side Story (like RIFF, SnoBoy...)

Daryl with some Familiar SC3 Faces!		JH: And some of them were named after the Brady Bunch kids. DW: (laughs)...Yeah, there were all sorts of little in-jokes...cuz we were missing them, there's a lot of stuff that we were missing and we didn't find out until later on or when we actually sat down and watched the finished movie. I would watch it with my friends and we would just crack up...I was like, OH, I never noticed this happened, or when did that happen? JH: Do you remember any scenes gettng cut or changed? DW: In the scene where I hit the Southern girl (Cindy) in the face with the bowl of oatmeal...I was supposed to spit on her, that's what the script said...and I told them that I didn't want to do that...ya know, I'm not gonna spit on this girl...and she was like No, it's fine!! And I was like No, no I don't wanna do that...and then the director, when he was looking through the script, he changed his mind...he was like This looked like a good idea when it was written but now it's different...so he was like Just take the oatmeal and hit her in the face with it...so I was like, OK, I can do that.

JH:		How about any scenes that got cut that you know of?
DW:		Well, there was a closed set...the set with the nudity, when the girls were in changing...and a lot of kids were under age so they couldn't be on the set...it was a closed set anyway because they wanted the actresses to feel comfortable with that...I don't know how much of that actually made it into the film...and then there's the effects shots that I mentioned earlier...
JH:		SO tell me what you are doing these days with acting and what you do...
DW:		I'm not really into the preformance end of it anymore...I mean if an opportunity came along I would accept it. I've always been very artistic as far as my strengths...Now I'm more working on behind-the-scenes. I work as a Video-Tech now for stuff like music videos and corporate films and live concert shows...that sort of thing. I work on projects with a video production company that is owned by a close friend of mine...so I sort of work freelance through him...but as far as performance I haven't done anything really in a long time...I've done television. I've played bad guys before; I usually play bad guys or the boy next door...I don't know what the connection is (laughs). I did an America's Most Wanted and I played this guy who killed his wife.
JH:		(laughs) they probably saw you as RIFF in Sleepaway Camp 3 and said WOW, This is the guy we need for this part!!

Daryl on AMERICA'S MOST WANTED...

...and as you can see, Playing "RIFF" came in handy for the role!

DW:		(laughs) I seem to get typecast for these types of roles...a lot of these crime-drama re-enactment type shows like America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries...But for the most part I'm working behind the scenes now. In the video production company I work for with my friend, I work in the compacity of a Video Tech...running cameras and that thing too...but I also utilize my skills as a video storyboard artist...I love cartoons, animation, and I'll draw storyboards when he requires that. I like model work too, I've built little scale models for sets and what not...I don't know if you're at all familiar with the black comedy tour that was going around the country called Kings of Comedy, but I worked on that, my friend produced and directed it...and they had a special set that they would use for the comedians to come out and perform on, sort of like a revolving set, and I built the prototype for the model that he used when he was putting together his presentation to create this set...Little things like that, anything I can do where I can work sort of independently in the preproduction phases of art design and what not for music video, video, movies, commercials...I dabble with a little of that.
JH:		Do you prefer performing or staying behind the scenes?
DW:		I love performing...I get a rush from it...the whole thing about creating a character...it's much more fulfilling...but the realism of the business, a lot of times the opportunities aren't there and geography plays a big part, depending on where you're located, I mean Atlanta certainly isn't the motion picture capital of the country, so the opportunities can be scarce.

Daryl on: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT playing a "Riff"-like THUG

Click here to watch a clip of Daryl on "In The Heat Of The Night"

JH:		So looking back at making Sleepaway Camp 3, what was it like for you?
DW:		I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun doing it. At that point it was the longest that I had worked on a feature length production...and I didn't have a lot of experience when I did Sleepaway...so it was a really pleasant and anxiety free type of introduction for me being a novice into the industry. It was a major character and I had a good deal of dialogue...well a lot of the others did, I had a good deal of obscenities (laughs). It was a great experience.

We would like to extend a very special thanks to Daryl Wilcher for going back to Sleepaway Camp for us and sharing all there teRIFFic memories! Maybe we'll all get the pleasure of seeing Daryl play another new Sleepaway character one day!