While premiering the new film Death of a Unicorn at SXSW on Saturday, Jenna Ortega teased the upcoming second season of the hit series Wednesday, which will see Lady Gaga join the cast.
The pop star’s role in season two, due out on Netflix this year, has been kept under wraps, but Ortega told reporters on the Austin, Texas carpet that the best part of working with her was, “It’s Gaga — just her presence alone, her face alone. She’s not only incredibly beautiful but incredibly talented, so I feel like she could stand in the corner and play a tree and she’d add something to a scene.”
She also noted that she has not yet listened to Gaga’s newly released album Mayhem, but “I’m so unbelievably excited. I’ve been a fan of hers for such a long time, so I think maybe [I will listen] on the flight out of here.”
Before the arrival of Wednesday Addams reprisal, though, Ortega stars in A24’s Death of a Unicorn, acting alongside Paul Rudd as a father and daughter who accidentally hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a wealthy pharmaceutical executive. Will Poulter, Téa Leoni and Richard E. Grant also appear in the project, written and directed by Alex Scharfman.
Ortega gave her pitch to see the film on the carpet, teasing, “There’s unicorns in the title — if you don’t want to watch it, it’s kind of lame. Just do it; what else do you have going on?”
Rudd noted that he was also intrigued by the title and that Scharfman has a skill for “writing vivid characters that are all messed up in their own way, a very funny way; they’re all verbal and bright and morally questionable and I was tickled throughout.”
He also sang Ortega’s praises, calling her “just so talented and she’s also the coolest person. She’s so young, and yet — I can’t stand it when people say, ‘Oh, it’s an old soul.’ I’m like come on really, do you believe in angels too? Yet that being said, she’s an old soul,” he added with a laugh.
Death of a Unicorn hits theaters March 28.
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