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The Lord of the Rings cast reveal the unexpected NSFW name the crew gave their trailer
The Lord of the Rings set was a lot raunchier than most people realize
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The Lord of the Rings is one of the most epic sagas ever chronicled on film, and the story behind-the-scenes was also pretty interesting. Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s high fantasy books was the breeding ground for some raunchy and NFSW moments, including a surprisingly vulgar name for one of the cast trailers. During a Lord of the Rings spotlight panel at Big Texas Comic Con, cast members Sean Astin and Elijah Wood recounted some of their behind-the-scenes memories. Some of them weren’t family-friendly.
“If you watch certain tv shows from the early 2000s, or the ‘90s, or the ‘80s, the jokes that were so fun that drove those shows, you couldn’t do those jokes now. They just would not go,” Astin said. “Before Liv Tyler got there, it was like nine dudes. We would be in vans driving places and stuff, and the kind of things we talked about, I shudder. The things we might have said back then, that now you’d be like I never would have said that.”
“The Winnebago that Viggo [Mortensen], and Orlando [Bloom], and Bernard Hill were in was called the c-u-n-t-bago. On the call sheet, it was referred to as the C-bago, so it was official,” Elijah Wood revealed.
“There were t-shirts. People got t-shirts,” Astin added.
“And fully used the word, and down South and certainly in England that word is not nearly as high-level curse as it is in the United States. It’s used affectionately,” Wood said.
Some of the female costars allegedly joined in the raunchiness. “Kate Blanchet shared that trailer as well, and she was right in on the fun,” Wood said.
“Raunchy humor, and totally base way of relating to each other. At certain moments you would be like, we’re coming out of orbit now, and we’re going to be around other human beings, so keep your freak on a leash now,” Astin recalled.
The fact that Cuntebago t-shirts exist is surprising. It’s amazing that they’ve never shown up on eBay. Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis will be reuniting for a new Lord of the Rings film, which is set to be released in 2026. Hopefully the cast trailers will have family friendly names this time.
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