Running Point season 2 premiered on April 23, 2025, and its biggest headlines offscreen are as loud as anything on the field: Kate Hudson, who plays Isla Gordon, arrives at the premiere engaged and still talking about a wedding; Brenda Song arrives engaged; and Justin Theroux welcomed a baby nearly one week before the season opened.
Hudson’s personal timeline is central to the attention. She began dating Danny Fujikawa in December 2016, went public with him in May 2017 after they were spotted in Los Angeles, and the couple welcomed daughter Rani Rose in October 2018. They became engaged in 2021. Hudson has used interviews to sketch the shape of that life — recounting, for example, how “Danny took me on a hike and what I thought was just a hike with a family friend turned very quickly into an unexpected first date,” and calling him warmly: “Danny, he’s just such a good man” with “values [that] are very sturdy.” In November 2019 she said, “I’ve got the best man. It’s the first time I feel like I have a real teammate in this,” and in May 2024 she told Andy Cohen the wedding would be “soon.”
Brenda Song’s offscreen story runs on a parallel track. Her relationship with Macaulay Culkin began in Thailand in 2017 on the set of the movie Changeland after the two first met at a mutual friend’s house three years earlier, and Culkin said in August 2018 that he wanted to start a family with her. Their first child, son Dakota Song Culkin, arrived in 2021; a source told in January 2022 that Culkin had proposed, and Song later confirmed the engagement, noting that “Wedding planning is so expensive and it takes up so much time.” The couple welcomed a second child, Carson, the following year.
That portrait of engaged actors and newborns shapes how audiences and press view the running point cast even before plotlines get a full airing. The show itself was framed by creators as a sports comedy with family drama and romance woven through; Mindy Kaling, speaking about the characters, said plainly, “Romance is not even in the top five things that [the characters are most] worried about in their life,” and added, “I’m used to writing characters who dream of having a boyfriend, getting married, then solving their problem.”
The friction in the story is obvious: producers and writers insist the show’s heart lies outside of romance, while the press and public fasten on the real-life engagements and family milestones of the performers. Kate Hudson’s persistent “soon” about a wedding, uttered in May 2024, collides with the fact that she and Fujikawa have been engaged since 2021; Brenda Song’s confirmation that planning is costly undercuts any sense that a ceremony is imminent despite the engagement announcement. Meanwhile, Justin Theroux’s arrival into parenthood less than a week before the season 2 premiere adds a fresh personal headline that will follow him through interviews about the show.
For viewers and reporters, those contrasts matter now because they will shape the season’s publicity rhythm: interviews will veer toward who is getting married and who has a new baby, even as the series pushes sports, family and work as its primary drama. But the facts on the ground point to a simple conclusion—the personal milestones are real and will color conversations around the series, yet they do not signal a flurry of immediate weddings. Hudson and Fujikawa have been engaged since 2021 and, despite talk of a wedding being “soon” in 2024, no ceremony has been announced; Song has made clear that planning is expensive and time consuming.
So expect the press circuit for Running Point season 2 to be split between on-screen storylines and off-screen life events: the show will be promoted as a sports comedy with complicated family dynamics, and the running point cast will be interviewed as engaged partners and new parents — not as newly married faces. Kate Hudson will return to red carpets as Isla Gordon carrying both a ring and a daughter, and for now the best answer to whether a wedding is imminent is this: after years of engagement talk and a “soon” that did not produce a ceremony, the evidence suggests there will be no wedding headline breaking at the premiere.
