Fox’s acclaimed animated comedy has tapped Cate Blanchett and David Harbour for guest roles.
The two-time Oscar winner and Stranger Things star are set to lend their voices to future episodes of The Simpsons.
According to Entertainment Weekly, it’s fair to assume that Blanchett will make an appearance in the season 31 finale voicing a canine psychologist named Elaine who agrees to help Santa’s Little Helper, who is suffering from depression.
“She determines if there’s a trauma in his past that they have to go solve, which actually goes back to the first episode of the series,” Simpsons executive producer Al Jean told the outlet, adding that fans will experience “a callback that is older than the internet.”
Harbour, on the other hand, will pop up in a season 32 episode as an alternate version of Mr. Burns.
“Like Mission: Impossible, they give him a whole new body and face and voice so that these people in the plant won’t possibly recognize him,” shares Jean. “He’s supposed to be a blue-collar guy from another part of the plant, but everything he says is like Mr. Burns. He wants to go to karaoke and sing songs from the 1890s, but the guys don’t see through it.”
