The next stop on Lady Gaga’s years-long tour through the weirdest corners of film and television could be Nevermore Academy. According to Variety, the Oscar-winning star is set to appear in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, yet not as it was originally planned.
There’s no word yet on what Gaga’s role will be in the creepy teenage drama, but reports have come out that the show’s production team wanted to feature Gaga in the season a lot more than what fans will be getting. As of now, she’ll reportedly only have a cameo on the show. But, given her history of acting roles in recent years, she’ll fit right in with the werewolves, sirens, and just generally morbid students of Wednesday.
Remember, this is the same woman who once appeared in American Horror Story: Hotel as the Countess, aka Elizabeth Johnson, a 112-year-old vampire who sustained her youth by drinking humans’ blood. She once cut her own breast to feed someone an ancient blood virus flowing through her body. That type of terror would fit well in a second season of Wednesday, which star Jenna Ortega described to Vanity Fair as “a little more horror-inspired.”
Gaga’s latest foray into the psychologically unstable came in this year’s maligned Joker: Folie à Deux in which she played Lee Quinzel, a deranged woman who falls in love with a psychopath and dances around town with him as they fall deeper into their terroristic tendencies. The oddballs in Wednesday would be like child’s play to her.
The second season of Wednesday is currently being shot in Ireland with a possible late 2025 release date. Regardless of when the show comes out, or how much Gaga we get in the hit show, one of the strangest actresses in Hollywood has already prepared us for whatever is to come.