Lady Gaga joins the cast of Wednesday season 2, obviously

Although she's best known as a pop star, Lady Gaga has long since branched out into acting, even winning a Golden Globe for her portrayal of a vampiric countess on the fifth season of American Horror Story and getting Oscar buzz for her performance in A Star Is Born. Her latest foray onto the screen, playing Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux, isn't something she likely wants folks to dwell on, since the movie tanked spectacularly. But according to Entertainment Weekly, she's returning to TV in the second season of Wednesday, Netflix's Addams Family show all about the life of young Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega).

We don't know who Gaga will play, but given her penchant for the grim and dramatic, it'll probably be something spooky. Honestly, her brand of camp seems like a good fit for a show like Wednesday. "[I]f Lady Gaga were to be a part, I think it would have to be two monsters that understand each other," Ortega told Variety a while back. Clearly Ortega, who is a producer on the show as well as the star, has been thinking about this for a minute.

Gaga's name has been associated with Wednesday for a while, ever since a remix of her song "Bloody Mary" was set to that meme-able scene of Wednesday doing a freaky dance. This wasn't just a passing thing. The Gaga remix got half a billion views on YouTube, WAY more than the official version of the scene. That's worth giving her a call, right?

Wednesday also stars the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The second season of Wednesday has been a while in coming; odds are it won't before the end of 2025, which means fans will have been waiting three years to see new episodes. With that kind of wait, booking Lady Gaga is the least they can do.

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