The Simpsons adds to its decade’s long list of A-list guest stars.
Entertainment Weekly confirms that the acclaimed animated comedy has tapped Cate Blanchett and David Harbour for guest roles.
According to the outlet, Blanchett will make an appearance in the season 31 finale voicing a canine psychologist who agrees to help a depressed Santa’s Little Helper.
“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 EW.
Harbour will make an appearance 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.”
The Simpsons airs Sundays on Fox.
