Hunter Doohan on Killing [SPOILER], Missing Lady Gaga

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from “Wednesday” Season 2, Part 1, now streaming on Netflix.

Hunter Doohan would like to report a “hate crime.”

The actor, who plays Tyler/Hyde on Netflix’s hit series “Wednesday,” says he missed Lady Gaga when she filmed her guest spot on Season 2. “I’m the one gay guy on the show, and I didn’t get to meet Gaga,” Doohan tells me in the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

Feigning outrage, he says, “This is bullshit.”

But he did get to meet Christina Ricci’s son when they shot their deadly Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital scene. “I think he was disappointed that it was me and not Jenna [Ortega],” Doohan cracks.

There are many twists and turns throughout Season 2, Part 1. The last episode not only features Tyler transforming into the Hyde and shockingly killing his master Marilyn (Ricci), but he also throws Wednesday out of a window at the insane asylum. We last see Wednesday bloody and seemingly unconscious on the ground while the Hyde runs into the forest as he’s being shot at by police.

“There’s so much more to come about the big mysteries of the season,” Doohan says. “Tyler has a crazy arc. I don’t want to spoil anything, but they kind of established in episode four that he thinks he’s freeing himself of the master, but from Wednesday’s conversation at Willow Hill, we learned that the Hyde can’t survive without a master, so he has no idea what he’s done to himself yet.”

Doohan understands why Marilyn was killed off. “I think it made sense for the story because they’ve kind of established that Tyler had to be separated,” he explains. “Their bond was weakening. But I think, for him, the only way he was going to be free of this iconic, but psychopath, is to murder her. We tried to play that it was hard for him because he still has these really twisted feelings for her, but he’s got to get rid of her to be his true self.”

I talked to Doohan on Zoom from New Zealand, where he’s shooting “Evil Dead Burn.”

How’s filming going?

It’s going great. We’re two weeks in now. We had a few weeks of prep here. This movie’s crazy. A lot of stunt and prosthetic tests to be done.

What kind of stunt training did you have to do?

A lot of fighting and people getting thrown around.

Do you love doing stunt work?

It’s so fun. I did the “Daredevil” show and was so excited. I was like, “I’m going to fight and really be in it,” but I was a guest star on it, too, so it’s like, “We don’t have time to teach you that.” My character had a mask so all of the fighting is my stunt double. They would literally bring me in for the closeups of being punched in the face just because you could see my eyes.

“Wednesday” is so fun and creepy and campy in all the best possible ways.

They really turned the dial up on every aspect of the show this year.

When you were reading the scripts for Season 2 for the first time, what was going through your mind?

I was like, “Wow. Still chained up.” And I also was laughing a lot. I thought all the stuff with the Slurp zombie [Owen Painter] and Pugsley [Isaac Ordonez] and Eugene [Moosa Mostafa] was really funny. I was really excited that there’s even more Addams Family stuff infused into it. I loved that the writers really showed everyone’s powers more in Season 2.

And then Joanna Lumley joins the show as Morticia’s mother and Wednesday’s grandmother Hester Frump.

She was so sweet. I met her just a few times. I didn’t really get to work with her on set. But an icon. She was so sweet.

Are you an “Ab Fab” gay?

I still actually haven’t seen it. I gotta get on that. It’s a blind spot for me. Edit this out. People are going to get so mad. [Laughs]

Are you going to come out as straight in this interview?

Everyone has a blind spot. Leave me alone.

Did they show you sketches of what Hyde would look like?

They showed me the drawing Tim Burton drew of the Hyde, which was so cool. Then I went to his exhibit [The World of Tim Burtn at the Design Museum] in London while I was filming in Dublin, and they had a whole “Wednesday” section, and there’s one of his original sketches of the Hyde on his board. But then there also is this almost insulting aspect to it that he waited until I was cast to draw it. I was like, “What does that mean?”

That’s funny because my next question is, do you think you look like the Hyde?

That is so fucking great. [Laughs]

Or does the Hyde look like you?

They can’t tell that I’m flipping you off in this interview. Oh, my God. I do not. He is purple with bulging eyes and a wisp of hair. I did have a friend tell me at the gym that he knew it was me because we had the same hair, which I just didn’t know what to do with at all. I’m not friends with this person anymore.

When we see the Hyde, is there any of you there, or is that all CGI in post?

I do act out the beginning stages of the transformation, which is always insane. This season, I was trying to really find it. I’m like, “I’ll do this,” and Tim was like, “Hunter, do your interpretive dance or whatever you’re going to do.” And I was like, “Great,” because you also have to do it for way longer than they’re going to use just so they can cut it at some point. It always gets to a certain point which is just so awkward. I’m just like, “Stop,” and then we all laugh. But then they bring in someone from the stunt team who’s on stilts and has crutches on their arms and wearing the morph suit with little dots, and then it’s just all CGI.

Is there music playing when you’re doing the “dance?”

There’s no music. It’s super awkward.  The whole crew is looking at you.

I find it interesting that the Hyde threw Wednesday out the window, but didn’t stab her. I don’t think he wants her dead.

Throwing out a window is also not nice, but he could have ripped her apart right then and there. I think there’s so much going on with how he feels about Wednesday because, to me, when she first shows up in Episode 2 of this season, it’s like he’s maybe a bit delusional about it, but thinking, “She’s finally given in. She’s come to see me,” and then she’s just there to try to get information out of me.

Now, let’s talk about the internet really blowing up when they saw one shirtless shot of you from the season. Go on TikTok and you’ll find hashtags for “Tyler shirtless, “Hunter Doohan shirtless, “Hyde shirtless.” Did you expect this?

I think Al [Gough] and Miles [Millar], our amazing writers, know what they’re doing. I mean, they created “Smallville.” And I remember that poster of [Tom Welling as Superman] up on the scarecrow thing. That’s kind of image burned into my brain growing up. They know how to make fun TV. Reading the scripts was funny. It was, “chained up, shirtless, sweaty.” I was like, “Are we doing pants?,” because in Season 1, We had to do the whole sock situation after transformation. I was like, “This is going to be interesting.”

Is there a Tyler-chained-up-shirtless workout to do to get ready for shooting the scene?

You read [the script], and you’re like, “Let’s just tighten things up a little bit.”

How uncomfortable was it being chained to the wall? Are you Method?

No, not Method. It’s just funny. Jenna walked in the first day and busted up laughing. We have such a good time, and they feel so silly and goofy on the day. And then I see the episode, and it’s like, “Oh, my God, it looks so much more intense than it felt on the day.”

Does your husband think of you as Hyde?

He laughs really hard every time my eyes start to bulge.

He doesn’t say, “I could see you in there?”

No, he knows better.

This Q&A was edited for length and clarity. Listen to the full interview on “Just for Variety” above or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.