Justin Theroux and Brenda Song to the rescue!
After Kate Hudson had a nearly catastrophic wardrobe malfunction in the middle of a Running Point screening event in New York City last month, both Theroux, 53, and Song, 36, immediately sprung to their costar’s aid.
The singer and actress, 45, wore a side boob-revealing black gown with a plunging neckline to the Feb. 26 event at N.Y.C.’s Paley Center for Media and, when she began to answer a question about three minutes into the post-screening panel discussion, part of the dress appeared to pop out of place.
Visibly startled, Hudson grabbed the front panels of her gown and exclaimed as her dutiful Running Point costar Theroux, who was sitting right next to her, sprung to action, footage from the screening event shows.
The American Psycho actor then waved at the panel audience and smiled cheekily as he leaned over to remedy the mishap by fixing something on the back of Hudson’s dress. Song also jumped in to help, leaving her chair to stand in front of her castmates, her arms spread wide to block the view in the event of any further slippage.
As Song stood guard and Theroux continued his efforts, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star continued holding her gown and joked with the crowd, “You didn’t expect this!”
Meanwhile, the rest of the Netflix series cast on the Paley Center panel — Jay Ellis, Scott MacArthur and Drew Tarver — sat back and laughed at the malfunction.
After a few more seconds of fiddling with Hudson’s dress, during which he jokingly yelled at the panel to “just keep talking,” Theroux fixed the mishap to cheering from the crowd and the cast discussion continued as intended — until about 35 minutes later.
Toward the end of the panel, Hudson raised her hands to clap and once again, her dress appeared to pop out of place. The actress exclaimed again, alerting Theroux, who once again jumped to action to prevent a fashion disaster — only this time, he stood up for a quicker recovery.
Song, listening to her costar, did not notice the mishap this time, realizing a few seconds later that there was a repeat malfunction, saying, “Oh my…” and motioning to the front of her own dress.
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Inspired by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Running Point follows the story of Isla Gordon (Hudson), who is suddenly tasked with taking over her family’s business, fictional basketball franchise the Los Angeles Waves.
Song stars in the Mindy Kaling-created Netflix series as Waves chief of staff and Isla’s best friend, Ali Lee, while Theroux stars as the new owner’s older brother, Cameron “Cam” Gordon.
Season 1 of Running Point is available to stream on Netflix, and has already been renewed for season 2.
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