Hudson on 'How to Lose a Guy' moment in 'Running Point,' odds of sequel

Erin Jensen, USA TODAYThu, April 23, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

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Spoiler alert! This story contains details from Season 2 of “Running Point,” currently streaming on Netflix.

Kate Hudson makes a reference to her beloved 2003 rom-com, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” in Season 2 of Netflix's “Running Point” that would perk up any neglected love fern.

In Episode 5 (streaming now), Isla Gordon (Hudson), president of her family's fictional basketball team the Los Angeles Waves, calls off her engagement to Lev Levenson (Max Greenfield) the night before their wedding.

“I don’t come home and think about my wedding dress or walking down the aisle,” she tells him. “I’m thinking about if (player Marcus Winfield) has another season left in him, or if we’re going to get the No. 1 seed. I think you deserve someone who loves you more than anything.”

Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) and Lev Levenson (Max Greenfield) split in Season 2 of Netflix's "Running Point," now streaming.

Their conversation continues into Episode 6. A shattered Lev condemns Isla as “so selfish” and “a bad person” and walks away. In a voiceover, Isla tells viewers, “Ladies and gentlemen, that is how you lose a guy in ten minutes.”

“I'm usually not a big fan of the references of past things or people trying to do that,” Hudson, 47, tells USA TODAY, sitting beside series co-creator Mindy Kaling, who wrote Episode 6. “But it was so funny, and it was so well-placed, and it made everybody laugh, including myself.”

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“I don't think everything we do needs to be winking at other projects that we're doing. I am with Kate,” Kaling, 46, says. “It was just that she had just broken up with Lev… in 10 minutes, at the beginning of an episode. I couldn't resist. If Kate had been like, ‘Hey, that's corny, man; we got to cut that,’ I would've been completely fine with it. I was just happy I got to live through the table read, and I'm frankly surprised that it aired. So I feel very lucky.”

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In “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” Andie Anderson (Hudson) and Ben Barry (Matthew McConaughey) begin dating each other as means to an end. Columnist Andie pitches the idea of hooking a guy, only to push him away, to explain common dating mistakes to readers of Composure magazine, where she works. Enter Ben, an ad exec, who wants to land a high-end diamonds account. He aims to prove to his colleagues, via his relationship with Andie, that he can quickly make a woman fall in love because he knows that they want.

When the truth about the two using each other comes to light, they split − dramatically, at a party while singing “You’re So Vain” − and reunite later. Fans have hoped for a sequel, and Hudson says the gang could get back together one day.

“I feel like that could happen if it was the right situation,” she assesses. “If it was the right script and the right way in, I think that I would definitely be open to it. But nothing's in the works at the moment.”

Siblings Kate and Oliver Hudson attend the Actor Awards in Los Angeles on March 1, 2026.

This season, “Running Point” makes another play that might score with fans: a cameo by Hudson’s older brother, actor Oliver Hudson, 49. In an episode, Isla and her brothers – Cam (Justin Theroux), Sandy (Drew Tarver), and Ness (Scott MacArthur) – and cousin Bennie (Ike Barinholtz) play a game of basketball against the McShays, another sports family who owns the hockey team that rents the Waves’ arena. The McShays, led by Luke (Scott Speedman), have been rivals of the Gordons and want out of their lease. Isla proposes they settle the dispute on the basketball court. Hudson’s character plays dirty and slams Ness’ hand at tipoff.

“He's so funny,” Hudson says proudly of her brother’s performance. “He's such a goofball. All of them. Also, it was the hardest workday because getting all of those boys together playing basketball was a disaster. We couldn't get through anything.”

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