J.R. Ramirez Talks Manifest Season 4, Michaela and Jared’s Ending

The much-anticipated final season of Manifest offered plenty of twists and surprises, leaving the audience, and even the cast members, shocked by some of the details.

One of those cast members is J.R. Ramirez, who plays the role of Jared. We caught up with Ramirez on the red carpet during the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas to talk about the final season of the series and if he felt there was any timeline in which Jared and Michaela could have ended up together. (You can watch the full interview below.)

His answer to the question about Jared and Michaela was an honest “no.”

“She finds him in times of stress and pain, she loves to have him by her side in those times,” Ramirez said. “You come across people in this world where there’s a lot of love, but at the end of the day, you’re meant to come into each others’ lives to teach each other something and that’s that. And I feel like that’s what happened when these two beings.”

“There is so much love and appreciation, and they’ve grown and learned so much from each other, but I don’t think they’re meant to be.”

Watch the full interview with J.R. Ramirez:

Ramirez said he was “shocked” by their ending, however.

“I honestly thought that there was going to be a happy ending for them, just because of everything they had gone through. Until about halfway through when I saw where they were going, with a specific someone else, and also hearing her talk about the lack of wanting a family. Once I heard that, I was like, this is all this man’s ever wanted. He wants a family. He wants that next step in life.”

For Ramirez, one of the most memorable parts of the series was when his character’s father was introduced. He was proud to bring “a little Latin culture to the show,” he said. 

“It was so much fun to bring some flavor, to bring our people and our culture to it.”

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*Additional reporting by Cade Taylor and Allison Nichols.

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Ashley Bissette Sumerel

Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.