Fans of Euphoria have been introduced to quite a few different people with evil intentions over the course of the last two seasons, but it seems as though nobody we've met yet is as wholly bad as Laurie. "She's a monster," Martha tells us, adding the further descriptive term of calling her "a sociopath."
"I don't think that Laurie has a conscience," the actress notes.
It's clear to fans by now that Laurie is far from a moral individual. In Season 2, the character provides Rue — a drug addict — with $10,000 in opioids, injects her with morphine, and has her henchmen strip her clothes off in the shower.
In episode 5, Rue tells Laurie that she doesn't have the money she owes her after the teen's plan to sell drugs for the criminal goes awry.
"I think it is definitely implying that Laurie is a human trafficker," Martha tells us exclusively about Laurie's true intentions after the character hints for Rue to sell her body for money. "I mean, it's very heavily implied. It's scary."
For the actress, she tells us that she "read the character" as someone who is a "sociopath." Adding, "There are people that it seems like there's something missing in their brains, so they don't have a conscience. ... I don't I don't think that Laurie has a conscience."
Euphoria viewers have already learned through small inferences by Laurie that she's a former college athlete who was injured and developed an oxycontin addiction.
Later in life, she transitioned from a high school teacher to a full-blown suburban drug dealer, and clearly, she has no problem exacting revenge on those who betray her.
So, will her character possibly be explored via flashbacks like many other Euphoria stars?
"I would love for there to be more exploration of her," Martha says, adding, "I also dislike the character so much that if at some point it was just like, 'Laurie got pushed off a cliff off-camera,' I'd be like, ‘Well, she deserved it.'"