Did Benedict Cumberbatch get naked for his role as the dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug"? Benedict Cumberbatch revealed new details about his role as Smaug the dragon in the latest "Hobbit" installment in a new interview.

Benedict Cumberbatch explained in an interview what it felt like while in his role as Smaug the dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug," while sitting atop a huge stack of gold coins in the dragon's mountain lair, The Star reports.

"I was like, bow chicka wow wow, there's going to be a little bit of dragon porn up here! But I didn't strip off, despite what Peter says," Cumberbatch joked from Los Angeles.

According to The Star, "Hobbit" director Peter Jackson has teasing Cumberbatch that he was "rolling around naked on a bearskin rug while doing the voice and motion-capture (or mo-cap) work needed to conjure Smaug," The Star writes.

"Peter loves to exaggerate, as we know," continued Cumberbatch, 37.

However, while Benedict Cumberbatch didn't get naked for his role - those are rumors spread by Jackson - Cumberbatch did admit that there was a fur rug involved, as well as some "method dragon acting."

The Star reports that Cumberbatch wore his mo-cap equipment and writhed around on a stack of gold.

"A lot of imagination was used. I kind of squeezed my feet together when I was doing the mo-cap, my legs together and crawled on my elbows and hands, and my hands were permanently splayed out so my fingers were like claws.

"They facilitated it so I had this platform with foam padding on top of the woods so I wasn't killing myself or my limbs and my bones and stuff. On top of that they had a fur rug, which was terrific, because for Smaug those coins are like little beads of polystyrene, a wonderful, luxuriant, ever-moving sand dune of pleasure to bury yourself under," the "Sherlock" actor explained.

However, it wasn't all fun and games; portraying a dragon's deep hissing voice took a toll on his voice: "I ripped into my vocal chords quite literally, I had blood at the end of the day from tearing my throat to pieces . . . I dropped my voice a couple of octaves so I could then layer on nuance and character colour."

"The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug" hits theaters tomorrow, Dec. 13.