‘The Office’ Star Answers Phone During Live NBC Interview: ‘They Want Me To Buy Solar Panels’

Actor Rainn Wilson answered his phone during a live interview with MSNBC host Ari Melber, speaking briefly with someone who apparently wanted to sell him solar panels for his home.

Wilson joined Melber to discuss his new show, coming soon to Peacock, titled “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss” — but his phone rang in the middle of the conversation and he surprised the host by picking it up while they were still on the air.

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Wilson was in the middle of explaining Iceland’s bathing culture — in which he participated for the new show – when he suggested that Americans ought to adopt something similar if they wanted to experience a more unified culture.

“All the towns of Iceland, everyone is just naked and they sit and they bathe together. We could unify a lot faster if we all bathed together, and I want to encourage members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to bathe together in the basement of Congress,” Wilson said.

Wilson was still talking about what he had experienced in Iceland when his phone began to ring.

“Show us. Who’s calling?” Melber asked, and Wilson said that his phone was showing a “scam warning.”

“Hello? I’m on NBC live right now,” Wilson said to the caller, and then turned back to Melber: “They want me to buy solar panels. I’m so sorry.”

Melber laughed, shrugging off the interruption and telling the actor, “It happens.”

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“That’s what happens on ‘The Beat,’ ’cause we’re live, baby. We don’t mess around,” Wilson joked, and then to avoid the possibility of another on-air call, he tossed his phone to someone who was standing off-camera before he went on with the interview.

“Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss” is a five-part docuseries that will begin airing on Peacock on May 18th. The show’s description, according to the network, is as follows:

Based on Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book, “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World,” Wilson will explore some of the happiest and unhappiest places on earth — from Iceland to Bulgaria to Ghana — in a profound and funny way that unpacks the science of happiness.

WATCH the trailer here: