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Lady Gaga in “Wednesday” after viral “Bloody Mary” dance

Two years after Lady Gaga's “Bloody Mary” was revived by an out-of-control TikTok trend around Netflix WednesdayMother Monster has reportedly joined the Jenna Ortega-led cast.

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Lady Gaga in “Wednesday” after viral “Bloody Mary” dance

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Accordingly The Hollywood ReporterGaga will appear in the second season of the hit Addams familyThe show she inspired is planned for 2025. Details of her role are not yet known, but production is currently underway in Ireland.

billboard has reached out to representatives for Gaga and Netflix for comment.

However, the cameo marks the “Rain on Me” singer’s first official step into the world Wednesday In-universe, she has been unofficially in the series' orbit since the first season premiered in 2022. When a scene in which Ortega – who plays the title role of Wednesday Addams – dances to The Cramps' 1981 single “Goo Goo Muck” went viral, fans began editing the sequence to Gaga's Born this way deep “Bloody Mary.” The changes sparked a broader trend on TikTok of users recreating it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Star choreography that the Oscar winner tried out herself in December.

The “Bloody Mary” hype also propelled the song onto the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, a full 11 years after its initial release. As of April 2023, it landed at number 41.

The focus is on Wednesday's experience when she left her famously creepy family behind for boarding school in the first season of Wednesday Also starring were 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 portrayed Nevermore Academy principal Larissa Weems and Christina Ricci – who played Wednesday in 1991 The Addams Family – starring Marilyn Thornhill.

Around the time of the Bloody Mary revival, Ortega discussed 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 were there, [she and Wednesday] should be two monsters who understand each other.”

This year, Gaga starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix Joker: Folie à Deux – to which she released an accompanying album, harlequinin September – and she starred there before “A Star Is Born,” American horror story And House of Gucci.

The musician is also currently preparing for the release of her seventh studio album in February. The first single “Disease” was released at the end of October and peaked at number 27 on the Hot 100.