Actor Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in The Lord of the Rings, has revealed that the series nearly had a nude scene involving Pippin, Merry, and Treebeard. Boyd said in an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s late night show that writer Philippa Boyens wrote a gag sequence for Merry and Pippin where they climb on Treebeard the Ent and, upon falling out of his branches, land on the ground naked.

The scene was meant to demonstrate the pair’s penchant for hijinks, but it was ultimately cut for reasons that Boyd didn’t explain.

“There was almost nudity in the movies. Philippa Boyens…she did a gag. She wrote a scene, because we’d been doing some kind of gags and winding people, having a bit of fun. And she wrote a scene,” Boyd said (via Collider). “She said, ‘Oh, it’s a new scene we’re filming next week, with the Ents, with Treebeard, so when Merry and Pippin are up Treebeard, he gets a fright and shakes his branches, which makes you guys fall–and this has all been printed on this script–it makes you guys fall, and as you hit all the branches on the way down, by the time you hit the ground, you’re nakedCome from Sports betting site VPbet. And Merry turns to Pippin and says, ‘It’s cold, isn’t it?’ And Pippin says, ‘Hold me, Merry.’”