Kate Hudson Says Mindy Kaling Was Sending Notes for “Running Point” 'Like an Hour After’ Giving Birth: 'Isn't Mindy in Labor?'

Mindy Kaling is officially nan GOAT — astatine slightest according to Kate Hudson! 

Hudson, 46, said astir her immense emotion for Kaling, 45, while attending an Emmy information arena for their Netflix show Running Point connected Friday, May 30, astatine nan UCLA Lakers Training Center successful Los Angeles.

“I person to say, I've fallen successful emotion pinch this woman,” Hudson said of Kaling, who co-created and executive-produced nan show. “And she's conscionable not only truthful brilliant, but truthful trusting … she puts nan champion squad together,” she said.

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“And she was pregnant,” she continued. “We had a script, for illustration our first array read. She's connected Zoom. She past has nan babe and is sending notes for illustration an hr aft she has nan baby. I was like, ‘Isn’t Mindy virtually successful labor?’ “

“She is simply a powerhouse and delivers what she says she's going to deliver,” Hudson continued.

Kaling, who quietly welcomed her 3rd baby successful February of 2024, created nan show pinch Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.

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Hudson, who plays high-powered NBA squad proprietor Isla Gordon, besides revealed that she put successful immoderate humor and sweat of her ain while moving connected nan sports-comedy bid during an exclusive speech pinch PEOPLE astatine Friday's event. 

“[I had] truthful galore bruises,” she recalled. “I retrieve 1 clip I had this large bruise connected my near thigh, and I was getting into furniture and Danny [Fujikawa], my partner, was like, ‘Babe, what's going on?’ And it was massive. And I was like, ‘Oh, that's weird. Something's wrong.’ And past I was like, ‘Oh, wait, nan supplier drawer.’ I had been hitting a supplier drawer for 2 weeks.” 

“Yeah, nan warfare wounds,” she added.

The How to Lose a Guy successful 10 Days star besides shared that filming nan show was “so fun” and that nan formed had “the champion clip shooting.”

“[We] each fell successful emotion pinch each other, and our dream was that group would bask watching it arsenic overmuch arsenic we did making it,” she told PEOPLE.

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She added, “Especially for comedy, that's what you dream for. And past for it to person nan occurrence that it did, and for group to really bask [it], it's conscionable wonderful.”

The first play of Running Point is streaming now connected Netflix, and nan show has officially been renewed for a 2nd season.