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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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00:00I mean it's like I'm doing a show with Kate Hudson like I have to be at like it just ups the

00:06ante. It was a lot of laughter. Yeah. A lot of really inappropriate jokes that did not make the

00:14cut. That I wish did. Yeah. You were the president of Louise. This is shocking. But on behalf of all

00:19women don't ever make a mistake. Looks bad for all of us. We're a family sis. We got your back. No

00:26matter what people say. What are they saying? It's just the fact that you're a netball baby and you

00:30don't know what you're doing. Oh my God. Kate Hudson is starring in her first sitcom and it's

00:35giving big boss energy. Running Point on Netflix is a basketball comedy about a woman suddenly put

00:40in charge of the family business. Just too clean. Smudge them up or something. Comedy is something I

00:49love to do and it's very rare that you get all the pieces to make it right and this was just such a

00:58great group of people. The series is from executive producer Mindy Kaling and also stars Justin Theroux

01:03and Brenda Song who plays the team's chief of staff and the best friend we all need. Am I that bitch?

01:09You are the biggest bitch. I love the chemistry between you two. When did you meet? Did you meet

01:14on the show or how did you develop that? At the table read it was so much fun. You've got all these

01:20very talented actors who could be doing their own shows and so you had a lot of great input. It was

01:25like one of the best table reads ever. Oh yeah. And everybody brought so much but that's where we

01:30met and we were like oh how fun it's just gonna be. It was so. Where are the girls? Yeah. So much of it

01:34is on paper already because of Mindy, like Dave and our incredible writing staff. It was honestly

01:39really easy and effortless but it was simply because Kate walked in and she set the

01:44tone and the pace for everyone on the show and so it was really easy to sort of just like jump

01:49along and I was just like every day I was like I'm just happy to be here. Happy to be here. Yeah it

01:53was fun. She's really like my rock and also the one who's like not in like a cheesy way. Get your

02:01shit together. Hudson's character Isla Gordon is loosely based on Jeannie Buss current owner and

02:08president of the LA Lakers who also serves as an executive producer on the show. She and Hudson

02:13have a relationship that goes way back. I met Jeannie when I was quite young, 14 years

02:18old, so like this idea that she really wanted to make a 30 minute comedy that's very irreverent

02:24about sort of the inside look at her life and has that kind of sense of humor and ability

02:32to just be able to have fun with it for me felt like such an honor that she wanted me to play

02:37her play that. We both love sports. Yeah we both love sports. I love basketball. I'm a crazy

02:42basketball nerd. Like I love stats. I love the full. I'm a huge Lakers fan. There's also a little

02:47bit of rom in this com. Hudson's character finds herself in the middle of a sort of love triangle

02:51between Max Greenfield who plays her fiance and Jay Ellis who plays the team coach. Two guys with

02:57serious love interest experience. New girl or with Insecure or did you watch any of those shows?

03:03Of course. I got so excited. I couldn't believe my luck. I was like oh my gosh. I've got like you

03:10know they're and they're they they're so different and yet have like such great stability. I love Mindy

03:18and I we we talked about this and Mindy from the very beginning was like this isn't I don't want

03:24this to be about romance. This is about you know that is just one element of a full woman's

03:32life and her journey her journey and her and and so but then what was created for my sort of love

03:41life and my own inner com Isla's inner questions and complications when it comes to love and romance

03:50or even understanding how to love that made it really fun another fun thing for me to have conflict

03:57in internal conflict as as I'm trying to keep a team afloat. Everyone is horny for everyone they

04:04work with but you don't do anything about it. Throughout the season there are fun cameos to look

04:08out for. One in particular from Song's real life hubby Macaulay Culkin. Can I tell you people

04:13people have been asked I was like honestly it was because he made a joke he was on set and he made a

04:17joke about just he wants like being in this stance he put basically he put himself in the show

04:21um to be in this stance just to play a fan as like an easter egg for us and there was actually

04:26a part that was written to be a heckler and they're like well do you just want to do that

04:29and it kind of just snowballed into this whole thing. So funny. But he just honestly he put himself

04:34in the show. And he did so many funny heckles. Oh he loved it. We are going to give the rest of

04:39the season everything we got and make a deep playoff run. Oh yeah. Most people who live in comedy

04:46it's like you got to get a lot of pieces together to make sure you walk that line. I feel like we

04:52made a really fun watchable show. Netflix has just picked up running point for a second season.

04:58The series had a solid showing after its February 27th premiere ranking third on the streamer's top

05:0310 English language series. For more on this show head to THR.com. This is the Hollywood Reporter News.

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