Simon Pegg on The Mandalorian, MI:7, Ice Age, and Future Star Trek Movies

With director John C. Donkin’s The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild arriving on Disney tomorrow, I recently got to speak with Simon Pegg about voicing the weasel Buck in the newest Ice Age sequel. As you can imagine, talking to Pegg is somewhat of a challenge, because he’s always working on cool projects that you want to talk about, and it’s also easy to geek out about his past work. Thankfully, Pegg is one of those people that’s always game to talk about anything. During the interview, Pegg revealed what it’s really like behind-the-scenes making an animated movie like Ice Age, why the thinks the franchise has remained popular for so many years, if he’s thought about directing a feature, his thoughts on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, why he’s excited to be part of Peter Kosminsky’s The Undeclared War and how it allowed him to “flex some different muscles and do something different,” and more. In addition, we talked about the status of director Matt Shakman’s Star Trek movie, the way Christ