Gypsy Rose's First Cosplayer Boyfriend on 'The Act' Is Based on a Real Person

Here's everything you want to learn about Gypsy Rose's first boyfriend Scott, the Wolverine she met at the sci-fi conference.

We are low-key residing for Hulu's new series, The Act, the fictionalized drama based on the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. And it is not just that the real story is so atypical we will be able to't look away; The Act, which is co-created by Michelle Dean, the author to whom the Blanchards owe their status, is so neatly executed and so smartly cast, it might be the most efficient show of 2019 to this point.

While the first two episodes of the series principally served as an expositional setup for audience to understand the torment Dee Dee (played by way of the show-stopping Patricia Arquette) put Gypsy Rose (a surprising Joey King) via, the most recent episode, entitled "Two Wolverines," begins to offer us a glimpse into the thoughts of the woman who would later move on to murder her mom.

This episode, we get to peer the beginnings of wheelchair-bound-but-actually-able-bodied Gypsy Rose's budding sexuality, as her mom takes her to a sci-fi convention the place she turns into obsessed and infatuated with a guy (Joe Tippett) dressed up as Wolverine. 

During a few moments when her mom is herself being courted by way of another Wolverine (hence the name) — played by Breaking Bad's Dean Norris, who is unrecognizable in cosplay, through the way in which — Gypsy Rose manages to slip away and forge a friendship with her weigh down, Scott.

During the episode, we watch as an increasingly more obstinate Gypsy Rose is going in the back of her mother's back to make her personal Facebook account and purchase a burner telephone to keep in touch with Scott. She even manages to uncover her real age and birthdate (July 21, 1991) by means of looking via Dee Dee's wallet, and eventually makes an attempt to run off along with her very own Wolverine. "Dear Mom," she writes in her runaway letter ahead of Dee Dee botches her plan simplest hours after.

"I am in love and running away to get married and have kids and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Love, Gypsy, your 19-year-old daughter."

Few things are stronger than teenage sexuality and rampant hormones, and we are glad this episode used to be ready to offer us a glimpse into the thoughts of Gypsy Rose. But just how much of this story of her Wolverine boyfriend honestly happened, and what sort of of Scott was created for Hulu?

Scott isn't the boyfriend who killed Dee Dee, but he is based on a real person.

First of all, you have to take into account that this first boyfriend of Gypsy's is no longer the same man she later met on a Christian relationship site and were given to kill her mom. That's Nicholas Godejohn, with whom Gypsy had an online dating that she concealed from Dee Dee for years.

However, Scott is based on a real person, though it is unclear if his real name is Scott or if he was once truly dressed up as Wolverine. The two did in fact meet at a sci-fi convention, and as Michelle Dean writes, shortly after meeting, "Gypsy and this man began communicating online."

"At the time, in February 2011, Gypsy and Dee Dee were leaving everyone with the impression that she was 15. (She was actually 19) ... the man in question was 35. He took Gypsy back to his hotel room. Through conventioneer intelligence ... Dee Dee found them. She apparently knocked on the hotel room door with papers that showed Gypsy was a minor, and the man let Gypsy leave," according to the BuzzFeed story The Act is based on.

In the reveal, we get to watch Gypsy be in contact with Scott after the conference, by way of Facebook and textual content, and we see her run away (on foot) to handle him one past due night time when he tells her he's in the ER. Dee Dee wakes up in the midst of the evening to understand Gypsy has long gone missing, and after putting the pieces in combination of her infatuation with Scott, displays up at his doorstep to bring her house. 

Gypsy Rose's runaway attempt led to Dee Dee to double down.

Dee Dee, within the demonstrate and in keeping with the real-life accounts, tells the person that Gypsy is underage (she isn't), which leads him to back off instantly. But this incident particularly is quite significant in Gypsy's story, as a result of Dee Dee's angle towards Gypsy modified dramatically after she introduced her house from this runaway try.

"Dee Dee was furious to the point of public spectacle," per the BuzzFeed article, which additionally mentions that she took a hammer to the pc Gypsy Rose used to talk with the man. Gypsy Rose herself stated in an interview with ABC News that, following her botched escape, Dee Dee "physically chained me to the bed and put bells on the doors and told ... anybody that I probably would've trusted that I was going through a phase and to tell her if I was doing anything behind her back."

With tensions mounting in an already very nerve-racking household, we already can't wait to peer what next week has in retailer.

New episodes of The Act are to be had on Wednesdays on Hulu.

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