Is Lady Gaga’s ‘Wednesday’ Role Everything It Seems?

When Lady Gaga signed on to Tim Burton’s Wednesday for a guest-starring role, fan speculation ramped up in the spooky spheres. The internet seemingly manifested this casting with a TikTok setting the iconic season one scene of Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) at the Rave n’ Dance to Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary” from her 2011 hit album Born This Way. The moment went viral, and the trend reached the pop star, who performed the dance on her social media before announcing she would be joining the Wednesday cast.

During Netflix’s Tudum event, Gaga performed a medley of her dark pop music, complete with an army of Wednesdays to do the dance, while inviting Ortega on stage for a meal of a moment. It really ratcheted up the excitement, but little was known about who Gaga would be portraying.

In an official X post, Netflix described her role as Rosaline Rotwood, a “legendary” teacher at Nevermore Academy. This cryptic detail was also shared:

Rosaline Rotwood. Cloaked in mystery with a reputation that precedes her. Our paths will surely cross. Welcome to mayhem @LadyGaga.

— Wednesday Addams (@wednesdayaddams) June 1, 2025

However, in a recent conversation with Entertainment Tonight, Ortega decided to throw a little signature chaos into the discourse of who Gaga is really playing. “She’s not a teacher,” Ortega revealed. “She’s not. Whatever you heard, it’s wrong.” So that brings us to some Gagaspeculation of who Stefani Germanotta might really be playing when season two of Wednesday returns with its second set of episodes. Spoilers below!

Wednesday season two has thus far teased many roles Gaga’s Rosaline Rotwood, legendary teacher, could potentially step into. Let’s break them down:

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Ophelia Frump: Morticia’s missing sister possessed similar powers to Wednesday and was driven mad by them. After finding out what LOIS is—the Willow Hill secret experiments on outcasts to transfer powers to normies—you’re led to believe this is probably where Ophelia ended up. At the end you see Wednesday interact with a woman whose identity we’re unsure of; she thanks her “angel” for saving her. It feels purposefully unclear if it’s Ophelia or Tyler’s mother. I personally don’t think it’s Ophelia at the end (it’s probably Tyler’s mom based off the normie vibes), and I hope Gaga will still play the missing Frump sister to Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Morticia. They both can sing, so it would be even more fitting.

Tyler’s Mom: This would be too on the nose, if the woman at the end was Ophelia and not Tyler’s mom. Mother Monster playing a monster’s mother? Please, no.

New ancestral power spirit guide: This can go so many ways. Perhaps Ophelia died and she’s going to be Wednesday’s guide, whom she meets while in her coma. Or maybe her spirit guide is a former teacher (not current) named Rosaline Rotwood, whom she could meet in her purgatorial bedridden state. Imagine your spirit wandering school halls while in near death? Now, that’s hell.

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Debbie Jelinsky:  Okay, this is more joke speculation but it would have been fun to see Gaga as a Debbie Jelinsky type of character, the black widow bride who was iconically played by Joan Cusack in The Addams Family Values. Fester already had a love story with the Willow Hill lunch lady (not played by Gaga), so this is probably not in the cards unless they get Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan to do it in a later season; her impression is dead-on, plus she is in the Netflix family.

Wednesday season two part one is currently streaming on Netflix; part two drops September 3.

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