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Kate Hudson on Taking First Sitcom Role in Netflix's 'Running Point' & Meeting Co-Star Brenda Song | THR News Video
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3/7/2025
Kate Hudson and Brenda Song sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk all about their new Netflix series 'Running Point.' They dish on their first time meeting at the table read, Hudson's relationship with Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and more.
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I mean, it's like, I'm doing a show with Kate Winston.
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Like, I have to be at, like...
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It just ups the ante.
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It was a lot of laughter.
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Yeah.
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A lot of really inappropriate jokes that did not make the cut.
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Sadly.
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That I wish did.
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Yeah.
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You are the president of the Waves.
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This is shocking.
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But on behalf of all women, don't ever make a mistake.
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What's bad for all of us?
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We're a family, sis.
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We got your back.
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No matter what people say.
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What are they saying?
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It's just the fact that you're a netball baby and you don't know what you're doing.
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Oh my God.
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Kate Hudson is starring in her first sitcom and it's giving big boss energy.
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Running Point on Netflix is a basketball comedy about a woman suddenly put in charge of the
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family business.
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Just too clean.
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Smudge them up or something.
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Comedy is something I love to do and it's very rare that you get all the pieces to make
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it right.
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And this was just such a great group of people.
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The series is from executive producer Mindy Kaling and also stars Justin Theroux and Brenda
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Song, who plays the team's chief of staff and the best friend we all need.
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Am I that bitch?
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Oh, you are the biggest bitch.
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I loved the chemistry between you two.
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When did you meet?
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Did you meet on the show or how did you develop that?
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At the table read.
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It was so much fun.
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You've got all these very talented actors who could be doing their own shows and so
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you had a lot of great input.
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It was like one of the best table reads ever.
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And everybody brought so much but that's where we met and we were like, oh how fun it's just
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going to be.
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It was so...
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We're the girls.
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Yeah.
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So much of it is on paper already because of Mindy, like Dave and our incredible writing
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staff.
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It was honestly really easy and effortless but it was simply because Kate walked in and
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she set the tone and the pace for everyone on the show and so it was really easy to sort
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of just like jump along and I was just like, every day I was like, I'm just happy to be
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here.
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Just happy to be here.
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Yeah, it was fun.
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She's really like my rock.
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And also the one who's like not in like a cheesy way.
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I'm like a...
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Get your shit together.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hudson's character, Isla Gordon, is loosely based on Jeannie Buss, current owner and president
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of the L.A. Lakers, who also serves as an executive producer on the show.
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She and Hudson have a relationship that goes way back.
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I met Jeannie when I was quite young, 14 years old, so like this idea that she really wanted
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to make a 30 minute comedy that's very irreverent about sort of the inside look at her life
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and has that kind of sense of humor and ability to just be able to have fun with it, for me
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felt like such an honor that she wanted me to play that.
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We both love sports.
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Yeah, we both love sports.
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I love basketball.
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I'm a crazy basketball nerd.
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Like I love stats.
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I love the full...
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I'm a huge Lakers fan.
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There's also a little bit of rom in this com.
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Hudson's character finds herself in the middle of a sort of love triangle between Max Greenfield,
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who plays her fiance, and Jay Ellis, who plays the team coach.
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Two guys with serious love interest experience.
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New Girl or with Insecure, did you watch any of those shows?
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Of course.
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Are you keen on Insecure?
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I got so excited.
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I couldn't believe my luck.
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I was like, oh my gosh, I've got like, you know, and they're so different and yet have
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like such great stability.
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I love Mindy and I.
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We talked about this and Mindy from the very beginning was like, this isn't...
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I don't want this to be about romance.
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This is about, you know, that is just one element of a full woman's life and her journey.
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But then what was created for my sort of love life and my own inner, Isla's inner questions
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and complications when it comes to love and romance, or even understanding how to love,
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that made it really fun, another fun thing for me to have conflict, internal conflict,
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as I'm trying to keep a team afloat.
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Everyone is horny for everyone they work with, but you don't do anything about it.
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Throughout the season, there are fun cameos to look out for.
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One in particular from Song's real-life hubby, Macaulay Culkin.
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Can I tell you, people have been asking, I was like, honestly, it was because he made
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a joke.
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He was on set and he made a joke about just, he was like being in this stance.
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He put, basically, he put himself in the show to be in this stance, just to play a fan as
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like an Easter egg for us.
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And there was actually a part that was written to be a heckler and I'm like, well, do you
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just want to do that?
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And it kind of just snowballed into this whole thing, but he just, honestly, he put himself
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in the show.
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There are so many funny heckles.
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Oh, he loved it.
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We are going to give the rest of the season everything we got and make a deep playoff
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run.
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Oh, yeah!
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Most people who live in comedy, it's like, you gotta get a lot of pieces together to
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make sure you walk that line.
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I feel like we made a really fun, watchable show.
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Netflix has just picked up Running Point for a second season.
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The series had a solid showing after its February 27th premiere, ranking third on the streamer's
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Top 10 English Language Series.
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For more on this show, head to THR.com.
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This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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