Matt Lauria addressed the possibilities of a Kingdom reunion despite him being booked and busy with Sheriff Country.
“What wouldn’t it take to get me to do one other to do more Kingdom? It will take a phone call,” Lauria, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly. “That’s it.”
Lauria said he would reunite together with his costars “in a heartbeat” — but there’s one condition.
“Give me six weeks to try to get the six-pack back,” he joked. “I’m older than after we began. That was in 2014 so 12 years have passed by. But so far as I can tell, everybody’s still in shape and everybody remains to be very lively. 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 attempting to keep his mixed martial arts gym afloat while managing the volatile lives and private demons of his sons and his fighters. Along with Lauria, the series starred Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas and Joanna Going.
“I bumped into Byron Balasco, who’s now a part of the CBS and Paramount family because he’s writing on one in all the NCIS shows,” Lauria told Us concerning the reunion with Kingdom’s coshowrunner. “We type of mumbled a couple of reunion and it doesn’t seem to be anybody’s against it. It was one in all the highlights of all of our careers — when it comes to the experience we had.”
Lauria isn’t the just one with a passion for the show’s return. Grillo, 60, recently told Us he was just as ready to return back.
“Byron Balasco and Jonathan Tucker and I were just on a three-way [call],” Grillo shared in September 2025 “We were attempting to work out how we could possibly — I’m not kidding — put it together.”
The trio want to “provide you 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.”
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For now, Lauria is worked up to maintain filming Sheriff Country where he plays the lovable Boone.
“Boone is embracing Edgewater for all that it’s,” he noted. “That’s been the central journey for Boone, and I believe that’s also what allowed him to essentially explore internally and confront his feelings for Mickey. Because normally, that will be a tough line for him to not 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 largely to Boone confronting his feelings about Mickey — only to get shot down.”
Lauria is holding out hope that the audience will learn much more about Boone in season 2, saying, “He kept a whole lot of things near the vest — including a secret wife. I’d like to get into more about who this dude is.”
Sheriff Country is currently streaming on Paramount+.