Matt Lauria addressed the chances of a Kingdom reunion despite him being booked and busy with Sheriff Country.
“What would it take to get me to do another to do more Kingdom? It would take a phone call,” Lauria, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly. “That’s it.”
Lauria said he would reunite with his costars “in a heartbeat” — but there is one condition.
“Give me six weeks to try and get the six-pack back,” he joked. “I’m older than when we started. That was in 2014 so 12 years have gone by. But as far as I can tell, everybody’s still in shape and everybody is still very active. We could pull it off in a heartbeat.”
Kingdom, which aired from 2014 to 2017, was a gritty drama that followed a retired MMA fighter trying to keep his mixed martial arts gym afloat while managing the volatile lives and personal demons of his sons and his fighters. In addition to Lauria, the series starred Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas and Joanna Going.
“I ran into Byron Balasco, who’s now part of the CBS and Paramount family because he’s writing on one of the NCIS shows,” Lauria told Us about the reunion with Kingdom’s coshowrunner. “We kind of mumbled about a reunion and it doesn’t seem like anybody’s against it. It was one of the highlights of all of our careers — in terms of the experience we had.”
Lauria isn’t the only one with a passion for the show’s return. Grillo, 60, recently told Us he was just as ready to come back.
“Byron Balasco and Jonathan Tucker and I were just on a three-way [call],” Grillo shared in September 2025 “We were trying to figure out how we could possibly — I’m not kidding — put it together.”
The trio are looking to “come up with some ideas” and “get the band back together” to “see if we could finish an eight-episode run,” Grillo teased. “We actually talked about that.”
For now, Lauria is excited to keep filming Sheriff Country where he plays the lovable Boone.
“Boone is embracing Edgewater for all that it is,” he noted. “That’s been the central journey for Boone, and I think that’s also what allowed him to really explore internally and confront his feelings for Mickey. Because normally, that would be a hard line for him not to cross.”
He continued: “But then there’s a more human side to all of this. It matters because he’d seen Mickey time and time again take a human approach with people and have it bear fruit. That contributed in large part to Boone confronting his feelings about Mickey — only to get shot down.”
Lauria is holding out hope that the audience will learn even more about Boone in season 2, saying, “He kept a lot of things close to the vest — including a secret wife. I’d love to get into more about who this dude is.”
Sheriff Country is currently streaming on Paramount+.
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