--- title: Morgan Freeman Will Serve as GPS Navigational Voice description: Driving just got a whole lot better canonical: https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-22T19:47:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:16:31.533Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Morgan Freeman Is Finally a GPS Navigation Voice og:description: Driving just got a whole lot better og:url: https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd217a984a451970/69887e8bcd1bba98ea6ff859/morgan-freeman-gps-voice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: AARP's Movie For GrownUps Awards - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morgan Freeman Is Finally a GPS Navigation Voice twitter:description: Driving just got a whole lot better twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd217a984a451970/69887e8bcd1bba98ea6ff859/morgan-freeman-gps-voice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morgan Freeman Is Finally a GPS Navigation Voice by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Feb 22, 2016 7:47 PM UTC  Actor Morgan Freeman attends AARP's Movie For GrownUps Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. Actor Morgan Freeman attends AARP's Movie For GrownUps Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.Gabriel Olsen—Getty Images by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Feb 22, 2016 7:47 PM UTC Life is full of questions: _Where are we going? How do we get there? Who will guide us?_ Experience has taught us there’s really only one person we can fully trust for those answers: POTUS, Red Redding, and the voice of God himself, Morgan Freeman. And now he’s ready to firmly-but-gently give us the advice we so desperately need – as a GPS navigation voice. Freeman is the latest celebrity voice to be added to Google’s free navigation app, Waze. So now you can rely on Freeman’s dulcet tones to explain that you need to make a left turn in half a mile to get to Starbucks. Of course, Google isn’t just paying Freeman who-knows-what to create some joy in our drive-time lives. The voice feature [is a marketing tie-in](http://www.eonline.com/news/742115/morgan-freeman-s-voice-will-guide-you-on-google-s-waze) for Freeman’s upcoming film, _London Has Fallen_ (the sequel to_Olympus Has Fallen_). Freeman plays the vice president in that movie, and he addresses you, the driver, as if _you’re_ the president, which is a bit odd – sort of like non-sexy commuter roleplay with Morgan Freeman. Also, writing about this subject gives us a chance to revisit one of EW’s most popular videos of all time: [Morgan Freeman on helium](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/05/22/morgan-freeman-on-helium). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/22/morgan-freeman-gps?xid=IFT-Trending) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://EW.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/"},"headline":"Morgan Freeman Is Finally a GPS Navigation Voice","datePublished":"2016-02-22T19:47:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:16:31.533Z","description":"Driving just got a whole lot better","url":"https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/","keywords":["celebrities","GPS","Google","viral","Morgan Freeman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd217a984a451970/69887e8bcd1bba98ea6ff859/morgan-freeman-gps-voice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd217a984a451970/69887e8bcd1bba98ea6ff859/morgan-freeman-gps-voice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"AARP's Movie For GrownUps Awards - Red Carpet","caption":"Actor Morgan Freeman attends AARP's Movie For GrownUps Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.","creditText":"Gabriel Olsen—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4232933/morgan-freeman-gps-voice-waze/","name":"Morgan Freeman Is Finally a GPS Navigation Voice"}}]}] ```