Kate Hudson‘s stepfather, Kurt Russell, has yet to make an appearance on her hit Netflix series, Running Point, but there is a key role he would be perfect for — and it has already been discussed by the powers that be.
During the Wednesday, April 15, premiere for season 2, Us Weekly shared the suggestion that Russell, 75, play the late Gordon patriarch, which the cast happily cosigned.
Scott MacArthur, who plays Ness, joked that he “always thought” of Russell as his dad anyway, adding, “So I’m all in.” Fabrizio Guido, who portrays Jackie, newcomer to the Gordon family — said he too would love to share the screen with Russell.
“I’ve been around, and I didn’t even think of that. Wow!” he noted while season 2 guest star Ken Marino added in his own interview with Us, “That’d be fantastic! Yes, that’s perfect. Get that out there!”
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Executive producer Jeanie Buss was just as thrilled at the possibilities.
“Oh, that would be amazing. Are you kidding me? Like, that’s a good idea!” Buss noted. “I totally support that.”
The pitch also got the stamp of approval from executive producer David Stassen, who hinted that there have been discussions, adding, “That’s a great idea. And it’s been balled about. We’ve talked about it. If we ever do see him, we could not do better than Kurt Russell.”
Running Point, which returns April 23, follows Hudson, 46, as a reformed party girl who gets the chance to prove herself when she is left in charge of her family’s pro basketball team.
Kate Hudson and Brenda Song in Running Point season 2. Katrina Marcinowski/Netflix 2025
In addition to Hudson, the show stars MacArthur, Guido, Chet Hanks, Toby Sandeman, Justin Theroux, Drew Tarver, Brenda Song and Uche Agada. The sports comedy has also prided itself on its star-studded cameos.
Hudson, for her part, previously recalled how Russell offered her a role in his 1996 film Escape from L.A. — but she turned it down.
“I went in and auditioned and got that part, and I sort of realized, ‘Oh, this is when you start to make choices that will define your career.’ And, ‘Do I want to be defined by being Kurt’s daughter who got this part? No,’” she explained at a live recording of the “Awards Chatter” podcast in June 2025.
She added: “[It doesn’t] matter if I got it because I was good enough — it would never be what people would ever think. And I knew that and was like, ‘No, I can’t.’ So I ended up saying no to that, too.”
Russell, who has been dating Hudson’s mother, Goldie Hawn, since 1983, was the reason Hudson ultimately chose to become an actress.
“My dad’s sets were the fun sets,” she said about her stepdad. “It was like Big Trouble in Little China and we had slides that would go down into rubber fish, and these amazing costumes … And the thing is, when you grow up on a movie set, it’s not that fun. [There] is a lot of waiting around, so you realize you really love it when you don’t want to get off the movie set.”
Running Point returns April 23 on Netflix.
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