Spoiler alert: This post contains details from the Aug. 3 finale ofKingdom.
After 20 episodes,Kingdoms second season came to an end with one emotional scene after another.
EW spoke withKingdomcreator Byron Balasco and actors Jonathan Tucker and Matt Lauria about the emotional hour.
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So he has to go away.
Im too vulnerable to feel his pain as well as my own, essentially.
As for the fight itself, Tuckers says it was like an out-of-body experience for Jay.
A lot of these fighters talk about how they love to fight because they feel alive.
I wish I could say that that was the case for Jay at that point.
Theres a sort of self-flagellation.
It cures him of this disease of thinking that winning a fight will change something.
I dont know how successful hell be.
For Ryan, Lauria says that Jay coming in at five pounds underweight was an insult of sorts.
Its insulting when Jay shows up half in it, but Ryan understands the emotional trauma, he says.
I strongly believe that any day of the week, unless Im unhealthy, Ryan beats Jay.
Thats not an emotional thing, theres nothing personal about it.
Ryan is just a different skill level.
You have to remember, Ryan went to the very top of the world.
Thats why he refused to tap [in their first fight].
He was in some ways sticking it to Jay.
Lauria says this rematch was about setting the record straight more than it was about vengeance.
Because at the end of the day, He loves Jay with all this heart.
Jays the closest thing he has to the brother.
Its just some temporary relief, but then the next day youre still left with yourself.
Everybody has to reconcile that.
Well see what happens.
And according to Balasco, it was always going to be Jay who found out first.
Nates constantly retreating into himself for good reason.
But it felt like Jay had to be the one to know.
I think Christinas always kind of known, but officially it had to be Jay.
God knows whats going to happen if and when Alvey finds out.
Wheres Alicia?
I think its two people who were just so incredibly lonely.
They both needed something that night.
Im not like this.
So this guy gets thrown away.
I dont need to feel like this is my fate, because its not my fate.
This is this guys fate.
And I dont want it around me.
