Mindy Kaling certainly has a strong work ethic, so says Running Point star and executive producer Kate Hudson.
During an FYC event for the Netflix basketball dramedy prior to the weekend, the actress gushed about the show’s co-creator, per People, saying she was so dedicated to the series that she sent in writing notes shortly after giving birth to her third child in February 2024.
“I have to say, I’ve fallen in love with this woman,” Hudson said of Kaling, who also serves as EP on the show. “And she’s just not only so brilliant, but so trusting … she puts the best team together.”
The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star added, “And she was pregnant. We had a script, like our first table read. She’s on Zoom. She then has the baby and is sending notes like an hour after she has the baby. I was like, ‘Isn’t Mindy literally in labor?’”
Hudson concluded, “She is a powerhouse and delivers what she says she’s going to deliver.”
Also from Ike Barinholtz and showrunner David Stassen, Running Point is loosely drawn from the life of Jeanie Buss, the sports executive who inherited the family business of managing the Los Angeles Lakers. As the president and controlling owner of the iconic group, she is the first woman to lead a championship team in the NBA. In the show’s fictionalized and dramatized adaptation, Hudson portrays the determined Isla Gordon, the newly appointed L.A. Waves CEO who must contend with league misogyny and her own brothers vying for her spot.
Already renewed for a second season at the streamer after a slam dunk inaugural season, Barinholtz previously told Deadline at the TV Contenders event that the writers room has opened and scribes are currently “in the nitty gritty of breaking the season.”
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