{"id":232302,"date":"2026-04-03T02:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/melissa-roxburghs-manifest-costar-josh-dallas-wants-a-bex-and-shane-romance-on-hunting-party\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:05:38","slug":"melissa-roxburghs-manifest-costar-josh-dallas-wants-a-bex-and-shane-romance-on-hunting-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/melissa-roxburghs-manifest-costar-josh-dallas-wants-a-bex-and-shane-romance-on-hunting-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Roxburgh\u2019s \u2018Manifest\u2019 Costar Josh Dallas Wants a Bex and Shane Romance on \u2018Hunting Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>The Hunting Party<\/em>\u2018s Bex and Shane have a lot of fans rooting for their love story \u2014 including <strong>Melissa Roxburgh<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Manifest<\/em> costar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/josh-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Josh Dallas<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do know [about them]. I was on set and I am a huge shipper of this,\u201d Dallas, 47, gushed exclusively to <em>Us Weekly<\/em> about the fictional romance. \u201cI so want this to happen and I think it would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dallas urged for the NBC series to lean into the \u201cslow burn\u201d between Bex (Roxburgh) and Shane (<strong>Josh McKenzie<\/strong>). Roxburgh, 33, couldn\u2019t help but agree, telling <em>Us<\/em> that \u201cslow burns are great\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/hunting-partys-melissa-roxburgh-reacts-to-unpopular-bex-oliver-romance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it comes to onscreen love stories.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat keeps you there episode to episode is the killer and the height of what\u2019s going on and just the craziness of what these killers are doing,\u201d she noted. \u201cBut I think what sticks in your brain as you continue through the show is like, \u2018But will they or won\u2019t they? What\u2019s going on there? So I think everyone loves a will they or won\u2019t they?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/tv-couples-who-took-a-very-long-time-to-get-together\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/tv-couples-who-took-a-very-long-time-to-get-together\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Jopper! Chenford! TV Couples Who Took a Very Long Time to Get Together<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWorth the wait. From Teen Wolf\u2018s Stiles and Lydia to Stranger Things\u2018 Joyce and Hopper, some TV shows introduced couples that took quite some time to finally get together. The hit MTV series, which aired from 2011 to 2017, focused on a high school student who became a teenage werewolf after he was bitten by [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Hunting Party<\/em>, which premiered in 2025, is a crime procedural about investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers in the country. The twist? The criminals escaped from a top-secret prison that\u2019s not supposed to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Roxburgh\u2019s character is an ex-FBI agent recruited to the task force due to her reputation as a profiler who caught the world\u2019s most dangerous serial killers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/hunting-party-season-2-premiere-kills-off-nick-wechslers-oliver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After a past connection with Oliver (<strong>Nick Wechsler<\/strong>)<\/a>, who was killed off at the beginning of season 2, viewers have focused all their attention on Bex and Shane.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.7%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large credit-added wp-image-4297332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"The Hunting Party\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manifest2.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Ralph Bavaro\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the characters go, I am always cheering for the history and the relationships where it\u2019s like they\u2019ve been through so much together,\u201d Roxburgh previously told <em>Us<\/em> in February 2025. \u201cIf they do build this love story and love triangle, Shane is safe and he\u2019s very calm and cool waters. We have the bad boy who murdered someone and he had a reason. We have the person who didn\u2019t murder someone. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the show, Roxburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/melissa-roxburgh-reveals-what-she-learned-from-manifests-josh-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was able to reunite with Dallas after <em>Manifest<\/em> <\/a>in the Thursday, April 2, episode of the hit NBC series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/tv-couples-we-need-to-see-together-in-2026-tracker-911-greys-anatomy\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ships2026.jpg?crop=0px%2C305px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"TV Ships\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ships2026.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/tv-couples-we-need-to-see-together-in-2026-tracker-911-greys-anatomy\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">TV Couples We Need Together in 2026: From \u2018The Pitt\u2019 to \u2018Tracker\u2019<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFan-favorite TV couples like 9-1-1\u2019s Buck and Eddie, The Bear\u2019s Sydney and Carmy and Tracker\u2019s Colter and Reenie \u2014 or Billie \u2014 deserve to finally get together on screen in 2026. Based on Jeffery Deaver\u2018s novel The Never Game, Tracker has viewers tuning in each week to see their favorite fictional survivalist \u2014 a.k.a Colter [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t have been more thrilled with this character. He\u2019s diabolical, of course. But it was just so juicy and delicious to be able to play somebody whose moral code was so, so different from anything that I\u2019ve ever played before,\u201d Dallas recalled. \u201cBut putting that aside, just to be back on the screen and back on set with Melissa was the real high point for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roxburgh \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-hunting-party-nearly-kills-josh-dallas-character\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried to get Josh on the show<\/a>\u201d several times before the right role came along.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get him on the show for a long time and then finally he was free,\u201d she shared with Us. \u201cWe have been talking back and forth about when that might happen. There was one other episode \u2014 I won\u2019t say which one \u2014 that we had tried to get him for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She concluded: \u201cThis was a perfect match for him because his killer is a shoemaker. I know that Josh Dallas likes nice clothes so we got him for the good stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hunting Party<\/em> airs on NBC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/josh-dallas-is-huge-shipper-of-bex-shane-on-hunting-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hunting Party\u2018s Bex and Shane have a lot of fans rooting for their love story \u2014 including Melissa Roxburgh\u2018s Manifest costar Josh Dallas. \u201cI do know [about them]. I was on set and I am a huge shipper of this,\u201d Dallas, 47, gushed exclusively to Us Weekly about the fictional romance. \u201cI so want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}