Johnny Wilcox

"Everybody knows Doctor Johnny can't stand anything boring!"

- Doctor Johnny on stage

Dr. John "Johnny" Wilcox is the tertiary antagonist of the 2017 action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho, Okja, he is an excentric, drunk zoologist and TV celebrity with his own show called Magical Animals.

He is portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal, who also portrayed Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler and Anthony Claire in Enemy.

Okja
In 2007, Lucy Mirando becomes CEO of the Mirando Corporation, succeeding her controversial grandfather, her father and her cruel twin sister Nancy. She announces that they have been breeding a special kind of superpig. Twenty-six of the best pigs will be sent to locations around the world, and ten years later, one will be crowned the winner.

Ten years later, a young girl named Mija lives happily in the countryside of South Korea with her grandfather and her super pig, Okja. They are visited by Mirando spokesperson and zoologist Dr. Johnny Wilcox, amazed by the size of Okja, he congratulates Mija and her grandfather and declares Okja the best super pig and announces they will take her to New York City. Devastated, that night Mija runs away to Seoul to find Okja, where she sees her as she is being loaded onto a truck. Mija manages to chase down the truck which is eventually intercepted by another truck, run by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In the resulting chaos Mija and Okja run away causing havoc though they are eventually saved by the ALF. Recognizing that Mija is Okja's owner, they tell her that their plan is to put a recording device in Okja's ear and let her be re-captured by the Mirando corporation to show how brutally they treat their animals. Mija tells them to return her to the mountains but their translator, K, deliberately lies, causing the group to believe Mija went along with their plan. They abandon her, and Okja is recaptured.

The footage of the chase goes viral and Lucy has a meeting with the most important associates, she comes out with the idea of fixing the image of the Mirando Corporation by reuniting Mija and Okja on stage and make them the new innocent face of the corporation, Johnny overhears this and menaces Lucy with resiging, but Lucy humiliates him by telling him that without her he has nothing, that no one even cares about him and the only fame he has is because of her, Johnny stays in silence humilliated.

When Okja arrives to America, she is taken to Wilcox's laboratory, where he is forced by a drunk Wilcox to breed with another super pig and bits of meat are extracted from her flesh for a taste test, Johnny repeatedly psichologically tortures Okja to take revenge on Lucy for the humiliation. Members of the ALF overhear the recording through the device they placed in Okja's ear. Jay vows to help Okja and Mija and use the recording to expose the Mirando corporation's animal abuse.

A huge parade is put on by the Mirando Corporation who give out free meat in the street. Mija is reunited with Okja who, blinded and battered does not recognize her and attacks her. In the resulting chaos, A video of Wilcox's treatment of Okja is screened by the ALF to the public, who quickly turn on him and Lucy, Johnny tries to calm down the crowd but someone throws a can to his forehead, knocking him unconscious, making him fall onto the crowd, he is not seen after this