Colin Firth's famous 'Pride & Prejudice' lake scene was meant to be played naked.

The 1995 British miniseries, one of the more famous television/movie adaptations of the book, is well-known for Colin Firth emerging from a lake fully-clothed.

Yet, according to the show's screenwriter, Andrew Davies, Mr. Darcy was supposed to be in his birthday suit.

As he told London's The Mirror, "He would have had a few hours in which he could be blissfully alone. It's a hot day, he arrives at this lake--so I thought he would strip completely off and dive down and just become a creature, an animal, just for once." Or, as Davies more bluntly put it, "The wet shirt scene was intended to be a total full-frontal nudity scene."

To the dismay of wannabe voyeurs and nudists everywhere, the powers that be decided to film Firth clothed, as seen here: