Two years after Lady Gaga's 'Bloody Mary' was resurrected by an irresistible TikTok trend around Netflix WednesdayMother Monster has reportedly joined the Jenna Ortega-led cast.
According to The Hollywood ReporterGaga will appear in the second season of the hit Addams Family-inspired show scheduled for 2025. Details about her role are still unknown, but production is currently underway in Ireland.
Bulletin board reps for Gaga and Netflix have been reached for comment.
Although the cameo will mark the “Rain on Me” singer's first official step. Wednesday universe, has been unofficially in the show's orbit since its first season premiered in 2022. When a scene of Ortega — who plays the titular Wednesday Addams — dancing to The Cramps' 1981 single “Goo Goo Muck,” became viral, fans began editing Gaga's sequence Born that way deep cut “Bloody Mary”. The changes sparked a wider trend on TikTok of users re-creating it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star choreography, which the Oscar winner herself tried out in December.
The “Bloody Mary” craze also pushed the song onto the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, a full 11 years after it was first released. He bowed out at No. 41 in April 2023.
Centering on Wednesday's experience of leaving her famous ghostly family behind for boarding school, the first season of Wednesday it featured Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez and Fred Armisen as Uncle Lester. Emma Myers played Ortega's on-screen best friend Enid, while Gwendoline Christie played Nevermore Academy principal Larissa Weems and Christina Ricci — who played Wednesday in 1991 The Addams Family — starred as Marilyn Thornhill.
Around the time of the Bloody Mary revival, Ortega mentioned the possibility of Gaga joining the cast. “I'm sure Netflix would love that,” Ortega said on the Golden Globes red carpet in January 2023. “If Lady Gaga was a part, [she and Wednesday] they should be two monsters who understand each other.”
This year, Gaga starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix Joker: Folie à Deux — for which a companion album was released, Harlequinin September — and had acted before A Star Is Born, American Horror Story and House of Gucci.
The musician is also preparing to release her seventh studio album in February. Its lead single, “Disease,” dropped in late October, debuting at No. 27 on the Hot 100.
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