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‘The Simpsons’ Gives Maggie a Voice, and It’s Lindsay Lohan’s

“What a dream come true to be part of this iconic family,” actress says after becoming latest celebrity to lend voice to the oft-quiet character

The Simpsons have once again given the baby Maggie a celebrity voice, and this time it’s Lindsay Lohan’s.

Over the series’ 33-season run, Maggie has largely kept the pacifier in her mouth, speaking very rarely as a baby and occasionally stringing some sentences together in episodes that deal with the characters in the future.

The latter is the premise of this Sunday’s episode, as a grown-up Maggie finally lets some words unfurl, with Lohan providing her (laryngitis-stricken) voice.

“Please! Don’t let Bart drive,” the Lohan-voiced Maggie says in a preview. “It’s too scary. He drives so wiggly and everybody honks at us and yells bad words and shows us their fingers.”

“What a dream come true to be part of this iconic family,” Lohan wrote on social media.

When Maggie has infrequently spoken on The Simpsons, it’s usually a major celebrity voicing her: For her first-ever words within the canon of the show, a Season Four episode, Elizabeth Taylor was enlisted to deliver the word “Daddy.” In another “future” episode in Season 20, Jodie Foster was recruited to deliver a lengthy monologue as older Maggie.

Lohan, as Entertainment Weekly notes, has subtle connections to both previous Maggie voicers: She portrayed Taylor in the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick, and played the Foster role in the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday.

Maggie has also been voiced by the likes of James Earl Jones, Viola Davis, and The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer in “non-canon” Treehouse of Horror episodes, while Carol Kane voiced Maggie for a single sentence in Bart’s imagination in a Season Two episode. Nancy Cartwright, the series’ longtime Bart Simpson voicer, usually provides Maggie’s baby coos.

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