![]() “I was trying to play Grace, because Angelina would be playing Grace as best she could, but it was just having that as a layer underneath my performance.”Īngelina’s not-quite-perfect recollection of Grace ended up being her downfall - with Ben realizing her eye color was wrong and, later, Cal realizing his mother would never tell him to give up. Getting to play Grace through the prism of Angelina’s calling was “fun, because I obviously never played Angelina, so I did have that in the back of my mind,” Karkanis says. So that was a super emotional day and an emotional scene.” Off-screen, however, it was all positive: “It was amazing having Athena back… I’d missed her so much.”įor Karkanis, she knew she’d enjoy returning to the show she spent three seasons on, but the Season 4 experience “really exceeded my expectations.” ![]() “She’s there, but she’s not really there. “It’s wonderful and devastating, all at the same time,” Dallas notes. “It made a lot of sense for us to use the Grace storyline in an Angelina arc.”Īfter grieving Grace for years, the quasi-reunion is bittersweet for Ben. “We had been brainstorming increasingly subversive and perverse ways that Angelina might use her abilities to gain advantage over the Stone family and how we might dramatize that in compelling, shocking ways,” Manifest creator Jeff Rake tells Tudum. ![]() Pairing it with Angelina’s new abilities ended up being a natural marriage, given that Angelina was responsible for her death to begin with. The Manifest writers had been plotting how to bring back Grace since they made the hard decision to kill her off in Season 3. She has a simple request: to bring Eden to her.īen brings their daughter to Grace’s gravesite, where he sees his late wife again… only to discover it was a ploy by Angelina, who manipulated his calling via the Sapphire. More than two years after her death, Ben is shocked to discover Grace in their home.
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