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Lady Gaga has made her debut in Wednesday season 2The 14-time Grammy winner appears in the series as Rosaline Rotwood, a dead professor sort of responsible for a Freaky Friday-esque ordeal involving Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) and another characterGaga was initially announced as part of the latest season back in May
Warning: This post contains spoilers for season 2 of Wednesday.
The wait is over for Lady Gaga on Wednesday, as her character of Rosaline Rotwood came, saw and… cast a spell (sort of).
After the cast of Wednesday announced in May that Gaga, 39, would be appearing in the Netflix series’ second season, fans have been eagerly awaiting her arrival. She didn’t appear in the first part of the season in early August.
But now that the second batch of four episodes is available on the streamer as of Wednesday, Sept. 3, Gaga’s reign as the deceased Nevermore Academy professor is finally upon us.
Part 2 of Wednesday’s second season picked up right where things left off.
Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) lost her powers and was thrown from a window by Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form. Now, without her psychic ability, Wednesday has a far more difficult task ahead of her in trying to prevent her earlier vision of Enid Sinclair’s (Emma Myers) death, all while Tyler Galpin in Hyde form remains on the loose with his mother, Francoise (Frances O’Connor).
That’s where Gaga’s character comes in.
Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood in ‘Wednesday’.
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In episode 6, the second in the newest batch of second-season offerings, Wednesday’s grandmother (Joanna Lumley) encourages her to visit the grave of Rosaline, the late Nevermore professor known for her second sight.
“Proceed with caution, my dear,” Wednesday’s grandmother says, before the titular character makes her way to the grave and incites the Latin inscription: “Be warned. Should my gaze be broken, a deadly trick I will play.”
Gaga’s gauzy Rosaline then makes her first appearance in the series, offering to help Wednesday but predicting some trouble in the process.
“The crack in your monochrome uniform is your overbearing arrogance,” Rosaline says.
Enid unfortunately disrupts the spell, prompting her and Wednesday to have a Freaky Friday moment and swap bodies. As a result, Wednesday rocks bright colors and dances around school to Blackpink, before the real Wednesday (as Enid) encounters Rosaline once more and learns how to reverse the body swap: “Unravel the innermost secrets of the life you’re stepped into,” Rosaline says.
The pair eventually makes the swap once more, marking an introduction for Gaga in the Wednesday universe — and a conclusion to what can best be described as the freakiest of Fridays.
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Gaga’s performance in the series came as a “surprise” even to Ortega, 22, who recently told PEOPLE that she “found out maybe the night before, and we didn’t know, we didn’t have time to rehearse or understand anything.”
“It was just something that Gaga had reached out, and she just called me. So it was very exciting. [She’s] one of the greatest performers, dare I say of all time,” she said, adding that her now-costar is “a legend and such a powerhouse.”
“Just an incomparable force. So to be able to sit at a dinner table and do nothing and watch her up close — what a gift.”
Gaga, herself, revealed to Tudum.com that her collaboration for Wednesday season 2 came after she “got a phone call that the show was looking for music.”
The 14-time Grammy winner had the perfect song in mind, which eventually led to her own role.
“I immediately had a song in mind called ‘The Dead Dance,’ and I had started working on it. But once I knew it was going to be for Wednesday, I decided that I was going to work on it even more, and I made it extra special for the show,” Gaga said. “To me, when you know that music and pop culture and Tim Burton all come together with this cast, that’s a very special recipe.”
“So that’s why I’m here. After that happened, they asked me if I wanted to be on the show, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’”
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Wednesday season 2 is now available to stream in full on Netflix.