Mindy Kaling tells PEOPLE she's a "horny old woman" as she explains the inspiration behind Kate Hudson's starring role in 'Running Point'.

The project reunites Kaling with Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, who met on "The Mindy Project" and "love writing for demented women," Kaling told IndieWire.

In Mindy Kaling's new Netflix series, “Running Point, ” Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, the new president of the Los Angeles Waves, a pro basketball team that's been run by her family for years. Hudson’s character has to prove herself as a woman in a man’s world not only to her passed-over brothers,