Billy Jessup

Billy Jessup
Behind the scenes
Appearance(s):	Jumanji (film) Jumanji (1995 Novel)
Portrayed by:	Gary Joseph Thorup

Billy Jessup is the ex-boyfriend of Sarah Whittle when they were teenagers, while he was also an enemy of Alan Parrish due to jealousy of the positive friendship between them and possibly Alan's superior heritage and living class. He was the catalyst for Sam Parrish's meaningful lesson about standing up to face his fears.

Film

Billy Jessup was half 13 year old, half attack dog and had been hard on Alan for a long time due to hanging out with his girlfriend, even though Sarah told Billy to stop being so aggressive to him.

Prior to discovering "JUMANJI", Alan was riding his bike minding his own business, until Billy and his group of friends came out of hiding behind the town statue of General Angus Parrish and pursued Alan, threatening his life. Alan had one advantage over Billy's gang, their bikes were inferior to his which let him make it safely to the Parrish Shoe Company's Factory ahead of them. Billy and his friends still hung around outside waited for Alan to come back out, where they proceeded to beat him up and stole his bike. Sarah later got Alan's bike back from Billy and had ordered Billy to stop picking on him once and for all.

Billy is not seen again for the rest of the film or the novel, so it is unknown what became of him, but it remains clear that his relationship with Sarah did not continue in both timelines, as Sarah seemed to have break up with Billy for picking on Alan when they got older.

Trivia

• Gary Joseph Thorup had only one other acting role according to IMDB, he had appeared in an episode of "Law & Order" original series in the season 5 episode "Wannabe" which was about group of bullies who committed a murder to a staff member at school and Gary's character "Vaughan Prescott" was a witness and a victim who was threatened by the bullies, which is opposite to his role in this film

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