Wednesday Season 2 Part 2: How Lady Gaga's character pulls a Freaky Friday, explained in depth

Lady Gaga enters Wednesday Season 2 as she floats in with all the drama of a spectral showstopper!

Fans waited months after Netflix first teased her casting as Rosaline Rotwood. When Part 2 of Wednesday Season 2 dropped, Gaga finally made an appearance in episode 6.

But this wasn’t just an over-hyped cameo. The 14-time Grammy winner brought a full-bodied (pun intended) plot twist that shoved Wednesday into a territory reminiscent of Disney’s Freaky Friday. The clue is that this time, instead of fortune cookies and angst, it was arrogance, Latin spells, and a professor that flipped the Addams world.

Read on to know why!

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Lady Gaga’s role on Wednesday Season 2

Picking up where Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 left off, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is stripped of her powers and dealing with Tyler the Hyde (Hunter Doohan) and his mother, Francoise (Frances O’Connor).

Enter Rosaline Rotwood: a deceased Nevermore professor with “second sight,” whose grave carries a warning. Wednesday’s grandma (Joanna Lumley) nudges her toward the grave, and (because nothing good ever comes from reading creepy Latin aloud), Wednesday summons Gaga’s apparition.

Rosaline, ever the cryptic mentor, doesn’t sugarcoat. She cuts into Wednesday’s confidence with a perfectly Gaga line:

“The crack in your monochrome uniform is your overbearing arrogance.”

Translation: Watch your back, kid!

But before Wednesday can control the spell, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) interrupts. That’s when things go full Freaky Friday.

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The Addams-Sinclair body swap!

If Freaky Friday taught us anything, it’s that a magical slip-up can force characters to live in someone else’s shoes literally. In the 2003 film, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis had to swap wardrobes, boyfriends, and careers to truly empathize.

On Wednesday Season 2, the gothic spin is far campier.

Suddenly, Wednesday is trapped in Enid’s body, rocking colorful clothes, and (much to fans’ glee) dancing through Nevermore to a Blackpink track!

Enid, meanwhile, finds herself in Wednesday’s skin, stuck brooding and having visions she never asked for.

Rosaline reappears to offer a solution: to reverse the spell, they must

“Unravel the innermost secrets of the life you’ve stepped into.”

It’s classic Freaky Friday logic: empathy as the cure!

Just as Tess and Anna Coleman had to see each other’s struggles (weddings, guitars, therapy sessions, teenage angst), Wednesday and Enid must learn to truly understand one another to snap back into their rightful bodies.

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Gaga steals the scene on Wednesday Season 2

While Gaga’s Rosaline isn’t around for long, her presence reshapes Wednesday Season 2’s core. Body-swap hijinks deepen Wednesday and Enid’s bond. The loner finally experiences Enid’s bright, bubbly world, while Enid shoulders Wednesday’s weight of danger and prophecy.

Jenna Ortega admitted to People Magazine that Gaga’s involvement was a surprise:

“[I] found out maybe the night before (...) we didn’t have time to rehearse.”

That raw spontaneity bleeds into the episode’s energy, making Rosaline’s appearance feel unpredictable...just like Gaga herself.

And let’s not forget Lady Gaga initially joined Wednesday for music. She told Tudum she had written a song called “The Dead Dance” for the show before being offered a role. Gaga’s music, Burton’s gothic vision, and Ortega’s deadpan magic collide in pop culture, which is so odd that it just worked.

By the end of the episode, the swap is undone, Wednesday regains her footing, and Gaga’s Rosaline leaves as suddenly as she arrived. A ghost cameo, a body swap, and a lesson in humility - wrapped in one freakishly fun Friday!

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Watch Wednesday Season 2 on Netflix.

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