Matt Bomer Calls “White Collar ”Revival Script 'Fantastic,' Picks Up Where They Left Off (Exclusive)

The Emmy-nominated actor tells PEOPLE he “would love” to revisit the role of Neal Caffrey

If Matt Bomer could have his way, White Collar would get the revival it deserves.

During a recent interview with PEOPLE, the actor, 46, discussed the reboot script written by co-creator Jeff Eastin.

“It's fantastic, and it's completely in line and in keeping with the show that we were able to do six seasons of,” Bomer tells PEOPLE. “It really just feels like he was able to pick up the right where we left off.”

“It's a really intelligent, fun, organic way to bring all the characters back together to pay tribute to Willie Garson, Diahann Carroll and folks we've lost since the show ended, which was really important to me,” he continues. “It's something that if you enjoyed the show, you really will have a good time watching it.”

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While a White Collar revival isn’t surefire thing yet — “Many of those decisions are above my pay grade and out of my control," he says — Bomer is excited by the prospect of reprising the role of Neal Caffrey, the elusive criminal-turned-FBI consultant. He’s also thrilled to possibly reunite onscreen with Tim DeKay, who played Peter Burke, and Tiffani Thiessen, who portrayed Elizabeth Burke.

“So much of that experience was just being with that group of people,” says Bomer, pointing out that DeKay remains a close friend. “We worked long hours on that show, and it never felt like work. It was just such a fun, free, open environment and a great place to just create and explore the characters.”

White Collar, which for six seasons from 2009 to 2014, featured a cast that included Bomer, DeKay, Thiessen, Garson, who died in 2021 at age 57, and Carroll, who died in 2019 at age 84.

In an interview with PEOPLE in February, Bomer remembered Garson, who played Neal’s close friend Mozzie.

“I have only special memories of working with Willie,” Bomer said. “He made every day more fun. He made every day more funny. He certainly added color to any room he was in, any conversation he was in, and he was a beautiful actor to get to work with. … Whenever I looked in the call sheet and I said that I was going to have scenes with Mozzie, coming up that next week, I knew it was going to be a fun day at work.”

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In addition to White Collar, Bomer also discussed his role as Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller in Fellow Travelers, which earned him a 2024 Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie.

Hawk is a State Department official hiding his sexuality who is swept up in a decades-long relationship with Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey). She show spans from 1950s Joseph McCarthy communist trials to the 1980s AIDS crisis.

"When I was nominated, I was so grateful and happy, obviously, but I was also mostly just grateful that a show like Fellow Travelers could exist in the world today, because we've all been around at a time when it couldn't, and we could be on the precipice of a time when it couldn't again,” he says. “So I'm just really thankful that we were able to get the show made.”

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All six seasons of White Collar are available to stream on Netflix. Fellow Travelers is available to stream on Paramount+ with Showtime.

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