TikTok Virality Lands Lady Gaga a Spot on Wednesday

Lady Gaga’s career has taken a turn for the better in recent years. She is now appearing in many projects that have nothing to do with her music. But just when you thought the response to Joker: Folie a Deux might signal a slowed momentum in Gaga’s presence in Hollywood, news broke announcing Mama Monster is joining the cast of Netflix’s smash-hit series Wednesday

According to a report from Entertainment Weekly, Gaga has joined the season two cast of Wednesday. The news follows a previous announcement by Netflix that Steve Buscemi will also be joining the series. While Gaga’s presence does a good show of upstaging Buscemi, her seemingly left-field casting announcement actually makes a lot of sense when you consider how her music career became intrinsically linked to the cultural success of the show all thanks to a viral TikTok edit.

In 2022, a clip of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams dancing to "Goo Goo Muck" by the Cramps became a sensation on TikTok. The clip was initially popularized by a TikTok edit of Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary", a 2011 song. The Gaga version quickly surpassed the Netflix original and started a dance craze on the platform. Gaga's shotgun approach to acting has a 50% chance of success in the cinema, but every role she gets fits her artistic ethos. All that to say, Gaga joining the cast of Wednesday is a no-brainer.

In a previous interview with Vanity Fair, Jenna Ortega revealed Wednesday’s upcoming season will showcase new villains, supernatural powers, and a darker tone more akin to Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death. Perhaps Gaga’s involvement in her as-yet unknown role will help fulfill one of, if not all three, of those criteria.

Wednesday season two is slated to release on Netflix sometime in 2025.

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