Lady Gaga is set to appear in Netflix’s Wednesday in its forthcoming second season.
The Oscar and Grammy winner will have a role in the Netflix hit, which is in production in Ireland. Details on Gaga’s role are being kept quiet for now.
Lady Gaga has a tangential connection to Wednesday already: A remix of her song “Bloody Mary” overlaid on Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) season one dance scene went viral on TikTok and other social platforms after the show’s 2022 premiere.
Gaga will be one of a host of new faces in season two, which added Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter and Noah Taylor as series regulars and Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Lumley, Thandiwe Newton, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo and Joonas Suotamo in guest roles.
Lady Gaga is coming off of Joker: Folie a Deux. Her TV and film credits include A Star Is Born — for which she won an Oscar for best original song and was nominated for best actress — House of Gucci and two seasons of FX’s American Horror Story.
Netflix released a brief behind-the-scenes video of season two’s production in September, which ended with Ortega saying in voice-over, “If we showed you any more, your eyes would bleed and I’m not that generous.” Along with Ortega, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Fred Armisen, Isaac Ordonez and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo are set to return as Wednesday continues her studies at Nevermore Academy.
Season one of Wednesday is currently Netflix’s most popular English-language TV series to date as measured by views (total viewing hours divided by running time) over its first 13 weeks of release. Creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar executive produced season one with Tim Burton (who directed four episodes), Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Gail Berman, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Tommy Harper, Kevin Lafferty and Kevin Miserocchi. Ortega is a producer on season two.
EW.com first reported Lady Gaga’s casting.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
