‘Euphoria’s’ Drug-Dealing Villain Martha Kelly on Working With Zendaya and Laurie’s Eerie Voice
variety.comMónica Marie Zorrilla SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Season 2 of “Euphoria.”If Martha Kelly were to go full-on, TV-show-level Big Bad, her villain origin story would start with her phone’s GPS malfunctioning.“I think if I were to flip out and become a psychopath, it would be because my Google Maps or whatever told me to get off on an exit that stumbled me into some road work that was bringing traffic to a standstill.
That would be the thing that turned me into a monster,” the “Euphoria” actor told Variety in her signature, dead-pan voice.The stand-up comedian and “Baskets” breakout star had been a fan of “Euphoria” prior to being handpicked by the showrunner, creator, writer and executive producer Sam Levinson for the role of drug-dealing, middle-aged loner Laurie, one woman you absolutely wouldn’t want to mess with.
Kelly’s Laurie may or may not spend all day on a massage chair — either to ease into an opiate-fueled high or to give-off Dr.
Evil vibes. (No one, including Kelly, really knows.) Kelly remembered seeing posts about “Euphoria” on Twitter — mostly about Zendaya — and seeing stills of the show, and thinking that the show’s artwork and cinematography looked awesome. “My manager called and said that I should watch it,” Kelly said. “I would not have probably gravitated to it because I’m 53, and it’s a show about teenagers, but the writing and acting are so good and it doesn’t really feel like you’re watching a bunch of kids going through all the stuff they deal with on that show.“And, I recognize that not every teenager has sex or uses drugs or has family drama or is violent,” Kelly added. “But every teenager does go through vulnerability and change and fear and excitement and fun, and I think.
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