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Warning: this story contains spoilers from theManifestseries finale.
The final season ofManifesthas been a wild ride, and no one knows that better than star Josh Dallas.
For four seasons,the show’s biggest mystery has been Flight 828and the meaning behind the passengers’ numerous callings, and the ending really ties the show up in a way that offers a lot of closure for fans.
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While Dallas notes thatManifestcreator Jeff Rake “always had an ending in mind” for the series, the actor preferred to stay in the dark until the very end.
“I didn’t want to know because I wanted to discover it along the way,” he says. “So I was super excited to get that last script and read it, and sad all at the same time. There was a lot of different emotions happening all at once.”
He adds that the final table read was super emotional as the cast dealt with not only the ending of the series but their time together.
After being put through the wringer the past four seasons, Dallas’s character Ben Stone finally finds some relief in the series finale as he and the rest of the Flight 828 passengers return to 2013, when their plane was originally supposed to land, and they are reunited with their loved ones.
“It’s something that I’d always hoped for,” Dallas says of the full-circle ending. “For the characters, especially for Ben and Michaela, that they were given an opportunity to go back with the knowledge of what they’d been through and the gift of a second chance and to try it again and to live life in a different and better way.”
In addition to getting a second chance with their loved ones, several deceased passengers are given a second chance at life — minus 11 passengers who turned to ash in the plane’s final trip. While fans get a glimpse of characters such as Fiona and Violet, one character fans don’t see on screen is Captain Daly, who briefly returns in part 2 before meeting a bitter end at the hands of Angelina.
When it comes to the Captain Daly mystery, Dallas teases there might be more to that story. “All I can say is that there was something filmed,” he says, before joking, “I hope I don’t get fired for that. The show’s over, I can’t get fired.”
Though the series finale wraps things up nicely for most of the characters, it also leaves a lot of room for the story to potentially continue down the road, which Dallas says he would definitely be on board for. “130% yes,” he says of whether he’d return for a revival. “Any work that Jeff Rake writes and he wants me to say, I’m there.”
“I would also love to see that story,” he continues. “I would love to see where those characters go and how they move through the world knowing this information. I want to know what that world looks like and the ramifications of what they went through, how that affects them now back in 2013. I would definitely dive back in.”
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“I’ll miss his drive,” he adds of what he’ll miss most about playing his character. “His drive was super human to me. It was very empowering to play someone that had that kind of drive. I think that drive got him in trouble in a lot of different ways, but it was quite extraordinary his resilience. But mostly what I’ll miss about playing Ben Stone is just my fellow actors and crew members.”
As for the show’s lasting impact on fans, he hopes thatManifestinspires hope the same way thathis seriesOnce Upon a Timedid.
“Once Upon a Timewas 100% about hope and I thinkManifesthas that DNA in a big, big way,” he says. “Particularly withManifestandOnce, when you’re talking about heroes or villains, it’s always about there’s never white or black, it’s always gray. It’s about the actions that you take that dictate whether you’re a hero or a villain. There is something about both of those shows that speaks to that.”
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Manifestis now streaming in full on Netflix.
source: people.com
