PHOTOS: ‘Manifest’ stars J.R. Ramirez and Melissa Roxburgh in photos from their romantic getaway in Fiji

‘Manifest’ stars J.R. Ramirez and Melissa Roxburgh in photos from their romantic getaway in Fiji.

Manifest co-stars Melissa Roxburgh and J.R. Ramirez had time to unwind during a recent trip to Fiji together, as seen in breathtaking photos posted on both of their Instagram accounts. The duo, who plays exes Michaela Stone and Jared Vasquez onscreen, took in the tropical views at Tokoriki Island Resort Fiji about a month after season four dropped on Netflix.

“In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jake (Martin Lawrence) and Mary (Melissa Roxburgh) seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist (John Malkovich) when a copycat killer strikes,” reads the film’s synopsis. “While Mary searches for clues in The Artist’s brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.”

And Melissa Roxburgh, of course. Fantastic. What can you get better than that? You can’t have it. John obviously is such a great actor with theater experience, so [that] allowed us to be able to shoot several pages in the same day, filled with dialogue. Of course, these guys can memorize ten pages in one hour, so it was fantastic. He had a suggestion. It was nice to see his notes on the dialogue. He worked with Melissa in kind of wrapping the scene. You know the cell that we shot, the prison cell, we built that.

We couldn’t find a sound stage where we were shooting or a proper warehouse to build that, and then we went to a high school, and I saw this very big theater, like 500-1000 seat, I don’t know, and they had a big stage. So I said, “I think John is going to be back on stage,” and we built [the cell] there. It had a great atmosphere, the great feeling that you have in a theater. So to work with him was fantastic, and Martin of course. Martin came a few days towards the end of the shooting with Malkovich, and he stayed until the end of filming. Of course, he’s a comedian, so you don’t know, in the beginning, how should I approach this? But then we had a good talk. He was so disciplined, and he’s willing to play a different Martin Lawrence. I think he did a great job.