Wesley

The subject of this article pertains to the canon of the Forrest Gump film but not the novel.

Wesley is a minor character in the movie Forrest Gump. He is Jenny Curran's abusive boyfriend and is played by Geoffrey Blake in the movie.

Overview

In the movie when Forrest and Jenny are reunited in Washington D.C. she takes him to the Black Panther Group and introduces him to her boyfriend Wesley whom she lives with in Berkley California and who is the President of the Berkley Chapter of S.D.S. Then Jenny and Wesley go over to another part of the room and have a fight and Wesley slaps Jenny across the face causing her to fall. This makes Forrest mad and he jumps on Wesley and punches him really hard but Jenny pulls Forrest off Wesley and tells him to stop it. She tries to help Wesley up but he pushes her hand away and picks himself up and coldly regrets bringing Jenny to D.C. The next day as Jenny is saying goodbye to Forrest before she leaves to go back to Berkley Wesley approaches her and tells her that things got a little out of hand because of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon B. Johnson and that he would never hurt her. Forrest tells Jenny that she should go home to Greenbow, Alabama (he yells 'Alabama' at Wesley) but she decides to return to Berkley with Wesley to which Forrest gives Wesley an ugly look (The Evil Eye) as he boards the bus back to Berkley. Wesley isn't seen throughout the rest of the film and is presumed that he and Jenny broke up shortly after returning to Berkley.