Lady Gaga joins ‘Wednesday’ season two with Jenna Ortega in undisclosed role
Lady Gaga will join Jenna Ortega in an undisclosed role in the upcoming Wednesday series. The singer’s 2011 song Bloody Mary went viral after fans spliced it together with the infamous clip of Wednesday Adams dancing in the hit Netflix show, and now, Lady Gaga will be joining the cast herself.
The show was launched in 2022 and is based on the Addams Family series, focusing on the character of Wednesday during her student years as she develops her psychic abilities.
The show also stars Gwendoline Christie, Luis Guzman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Christina Ricci, who starred in the 1991 version of the Addams Family film as the young girl.
Ortega had previously revealed during the 2023 awards season that she wanted Gaga to join the show, proposing ideas for how she could be involved in the show. When previously asked about Gaga potentially joining the show, Ortega said, “I’m sure Netflix would love that. I think Mrs. Thornhill and Wednesday had this weird mentor relationship or kind of understood each other in a certain way, so, if Lady Gaga were to be a part, I think it would have to be two monsters that understand each other.”
Gaga has been working her way into the film industry and is now known as an actor and singer, starring in films like A Star is Born, House of Gucci and more recently, Joker: Folie á Deux. Gaga previously won a Golden Globe award for her work in season five of American Horror Story.
As well as her newfound acting career, the singer is also working on her seventh studio album, which is due to be released in 2025. Gaga recently released a new version of the song Disease, which is said to be one of the tracks from her new album.
When talking about the thematic strands with her recent films, mainly Joker: Folie á Deux, Gaga said that they confronted feelings she’d been grappling with in her own personal life, explaining, “Playing a strung-out girl my whole career was a way for me to split off from my true self, but, it’s all me,” she said at the time.
Like any good actor, Gaga used her personal experiences to draw out her performance: “Basically, that song says if I was ever going to find joy or happiness in my life, it would probably feel like an accident. Where I was in my life for a long time, I was on a path that was pretty futile because I was so split off from reality. My dedicated fans know this about me, that playing a persona had a price, and it has a price for Lee and her love of Joker. There’s definitely a way that I address that on this record.”
A release date for Wednesday series two has yet to be confirmed.