In ‘Running Point,’ Kate Hudson gets having to prove yourself, like Lakers boss Jeanie Buss

In the middle of our interview, Kate Hudson decides to ask Google a question. The overlap makes “Running Point” the ideal project for Hudson’s first major foray into television comedy. In “Running Point,” L.A.’s team is the Waves, and Isla, a former party girl, is thrust into the gig when one of her brothers is sent to rehab following a drug-induced car crash. I don’t know what scenes we’re shooting tomorrow.’ But Kate would go and she’d show up the next morning, and she’d be in hair and makeup running her lines.” “She gave us real artistic license,” says Hudson about Jeanie Buss, who is the inspiration for Isla. “She was like, ‘If this was a Lakers game, there’d be a bunch of fancy people in fancy clothes hanging out by the locker room and near the VIP lounge.’” Hudson’s connection to Los Angeles is deeper, however, than just knowing what the inner workings of a Lakers game look like from the point of view of a celebrity.