Martha Kelly says she wants Rue back in Angel Euphoria, but she is not sure she knows the cleanest way to get her there. The actress, who received her first Emmy nomination for playing the drug dealer Laurie in season two, returned for season three after a five-year time jump and found herself in the middle of a storyline that has already turned violent.
Laurie drew Rue back into her orbit by offering her work to pay off a debt, only for Rue to escape and end up in the home of another drug lord, Alamo Brown. By the second episode of season three, the two were at war after Laurie called Brown a “fucking pig” on a tense phone call, prompting a literal pig that was defecating to be sent to her home in retaliation. Kelly called the turn of events “that’s wild,” and said, “I really didn’t know that!”
That kind of surprise fits with the way Kelly says she has experienced the show from the start. She said she came in intimidated by the caliber of talent and the intensity given to every frame, and that the material in season two left her worn out because it was so deeply disturbing. Even now, she said she has only seen her own scenes and does not know a lot of what happens this season, adding that she saw the first three episodes but did not want to mix up the details by accident.
Kelly also said she did not know about Rue driving over the wall in Mexico, or the balloon-swallowing scene involving Rue and Faye, or the stories involving Maddie, Lexi, Cassie, Nate and Rue going to Alamo’s house. She said she knew the show involved drug smuggling, but not how it was done, and added again of the latest turn in the feud, “That’s wild.”
What matters now is that Laurie is no longer just a shadow in Rue’s past. With the feud against Alamo Brown already taking shape in the first three episodes, Angel Euphoria has pushed Kelly’s character from one corner of the story into the center of the next fight, and Kelly herself sounds just as unsettled by the fallout as anyone watching it unfold.
