'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega says she has a past connection to Lady Gaga and wants the singer to join season 2
- Jenna Ortega wants Lady Gaga to join the cast of "Wednesday" season two.
- The singer recently joined in on the TikTok trend of doing Ortega's dance from the Netflix series.
Netflix finally confirmed that "Wednesday" will return for season two with Jenna Ortega reprising her role as the dark daughter of the Addams Family, and the star already has an idea of who she wants to join her when she goes back to Nevermore Academy.
Ortega spoke to Variety on the 2023 Golden Globes red carpet Tuesday evening about the success of the show, as well as being shocked that Lady Gaga took part in the viral TikTok craze of users replicating Wednesday's dance.
In episode four, Wednesday dances to The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck," but the TikTok trend uses Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary."
The star joked that Netflix would love Gaga to join the cast, before suggesting that she should play a monster that understands Wednesday in a similar fashion to Mrs. Thornhill (Christina Ricci) in the first season.
Ortega said: "I'm sure Netflix would love that. I think Mrs. Thornhill and Wednesday had this weird mentor relationship or kind of understood each other in a certain way, so, if Lady Gaga were to be a part, I think it would have to be two monsters that understand each other."
The actor went on to say that Gaga actually sent her a quick video a few years ago because they worked with the same hairdresser.
"You know what's funny [with] Lady Gaga? A long time ago, I worked with a hairdresser that used to work with her, and I'd just seen Lady Gaga in concert in Boston a couple of years before, and she'd made me a video saying, 'Hey Jenna, I heard you're a fan.'"
The "X" and "Scream" star called it a "sweet" gesture because the singer probably didn't know who she was at the time, which makes it "crazy" that Gaga then did the "Wednesday" dance on TikTok.
"It was a really sweet video. I doubt she had any idea who I was back then, but to see her do [the 'Wednesday' dance on TikTok] now, it's one of those moments you acknowledge life changes really fast. It's crazy," Ortega said.