Lady Gaga joins season 2 of 'Wednesday'

During the broadcast of the first season of the series Wednesday of Tim Burton, the song went viral Bloody Mary of Lady Gagaincluded on his second studio album, Born this Way of the year 2011. It was so much the boom of the musical theme used by fans of the series to create a clip on TikTok using a scene from Jenna Ortega like Wednesday Addams in the series dancing, to the rhythm of Bloody Marywhich Interscope Records decided to officially release as a single in November 2022, eleven years after the publication of Gaga's album.

And now, in a twist of fate, the singer and actress, Gaga joins the second season of Wednesday in a role that for the moment remains secret.

Gaga meets right now filming his part somewhere in Europeaccording to EW reports.

The protagonist of the series, Ortega, revealed at the 2023 Golden Globes that she wanted Gaga to join the second season of Wednesday, and even spoke about what could be a potential story for the nicknamed Mother Monster saying:

“I'm sure Netflix would love it. I think Ms. Thornhill and Wednesday had a weird mentoring relationship or a certain understanding of each other, so if Lady Gaga was part of the show, I think They would have to be two monsters who understood each other.”

Ortega continued talking about his connection with Gaga:

“You know what's funny about Lady Gaga? A long time ago I worked with a hairdresser who used to work with her, and I had seen Lady Gaga in concert in Boston a couple of years before, and she had made a video of me saying: 'Hey Jenna, I heard you're a fan.' It was a really sweet video I doubt she had any idea who I was back then, but watching her do it. [el baile de Wednesday en TikTok] Now, it's one of those moments when you recognize that life changes very quickly. “It’s crazy.”

This marks Gaga's most recent role on television, having previously starred in season 5 of American Horror Storya role that earned her a Golden Globe. In film she has starred in the Oscar winner, A Star is Born, House of Gucciand more recently, Joker: Folie à Deux.

Gaga joins Ortega's comebacks as Merlina/Wednesday, Catherine Zeta-Jones like Morticia, Luis Guzman like Gomez/Homer, Isaac Ordóñez like Pugsley/Pericles, and Luyanda Unita Lewis-Nyawoas Sheriff Ritchie Santiago, in regular roles. Emma Myers like Enid, Joy Sunday like Bianca, Hunter Doohan like Tyler, Victor Dorobantu like Thing, Moosa Mostafa like Eugene, and Georgie Farmer like Ajax. While Fred Armisen will return as Uncle Lucas/Uncle Fester, in a guest star role.

New cast members include Thank you Newton (Westworld) playing a la Dra. Fairburn; Frances O’Connor (The Missing), Haley Joel Osment (The Kominsky Method), Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries), Joonas Suotamo (saga Star Wars), Steve Buscemi (Fargo), Billie Piper (Scoop), Evie Templeton (Return to Silent Hill), Owen Painter (Tiny Beautiful Things), y Noah Taylor (Law & Order: Organized Crime). Also Joanna Lumley (Fool Me Once) giving life to Grandmama Addams, and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), in charge of giving life to Uncle Lucas in the film franchise of The Addams Familyas a guest star in the second season.

The original series of Netflixproduced by Amazon MGM Studios, filmed its first season in Romania. The second season moved production to County Wicklow in Ireland.

Alfred Gough y Miles Millar (Smallville) are the writers, creators and executive producers of Wednesday.

The title of the first episode of season 2 is “Here We Woe Again”was written by Millar and Gough, and is directed by Burton.

Burton is the executive producer and director of several episodes of both seasons. Steve Stark and Andrew Mittman are other executive producers along with Kevin Miserocchi, Charles Addams, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Gail Berman, Tommy Harper and Kevin Lafferty. Jenna Ortega will get an executive producer credit for the second season. MGM Television is the studio behind the series.

In addition to his role in WednesdayGaga is working on her seventh studio album, which will be released in February 2025. At the end of October, the first single, Disease. Just this week he released a live version of Disease, dubbed the edition The Antidote. Additionally, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards for her musical collaboration with Bruno Mars, Die With a Smile.