A strange update on ‘Wednesday’ season 2 ahead of the release date

Wednesday has attracted an eccentric cast from the start, but it may be adding its most unusual member yet for Season 2. That would be none other than Lady Gaga, who is reportedly joining Season 2 in some sort of unspecified role. Some reports say a cameo, others more than that, but no details or confirmation from Netflix yet. Black they said tried to get her a bigger part, but she wasn’t available for more.

There’s been a dark cloud surrounding Gaga’s acting career given her prominent role in Joker: Folie a Deux, the disastrous, critically-hated, fan-hated, money-losing sequel to one of the most profitable R-rated films of all time. She was the latest iteration of the popular Harley Quinn, and while it certainly wasn’t her performance that sank the film, she was attached to the whole thing whether she liked it or not.

Gaga is of course mainly known for her music, but she’s certainly had some notable acting roles, including House of Gucci and A Star is Born. I tried to find the first time she was in a major movie and it seems to be Men in Black 3 where she played an uncredited “Alien on TV Monitors.” Not to be outdone by her first ever role, “Girl at Swimming Pool #2” on The Sopranos in 2001. She’s come a long way.

Gaga, aside from perhaps sharing something of an aesthetic with Wednesday, also has the tenuous connection of her song, Bloody Mary, being used in social media clips of Wednesday’s famous Season 1 dance, despite not actually is the song she danced to on the show. But it certainly fit. We don’t know if her role in the show is musical or not, but when she appears on screen in big name projects, singing is usually involved.

Gaga joins another new cast member, Steve Buscemi, who has signed on for much of Season 2. We don’t know his role either, though it’s been said more generally that Wednesday’s family will play a more prominent role in the season 2 rather than just appearing for an episode or two.

As for Wednesday’s season 2 release date, we’re actually staring down three years between seasons 1 and 2, part pandemic, part Jenna Ortega being busy, part every streaming series takes way too long to make now. With filming in Ireland underway, best estimates put the Wednesday season 2 release date somewhere in late 2025, likely late fall or early winter with post-production factored in. Hopefully it won’t slide into 2026.

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