Talking with TooFab solely forward of the discharge of his upcoming Fox particular, Anderson stated it was a “bombshell” when Van Der Beek confided within the group.

“James dropped [the diagnosis] on us whereas we had been rehearsing and having a dinner on digicam. And he was very forthcoming and trustworthy,” Anderson advised TooFab, earlier than including how completely different the present would have been had they filmed earlier.

“Had we talked to him six weeks prior that, he would not have been capable of do the present as a result of, the state that he was in,” Anderson revealed.

The host shared that Van Der Beek’s choice to share his stage 3 colorectal most cancers prognosis with the group “introduced us even nearer collectively and strengthen our brotherhood.”

Anderson added that it was a courageous act by Van Der Beek.

“Generally we now have to do this,” he stated. “We have now to get out of our personal method and we now have to share our tales with the world.”

Fellow costar Taye Diggs stated whereas every of the celebs on the present have their very own previous private connections to most cancers, Van Der Beek opening up about his prognosis reminded the group of why they had been there.

“It made it even that extra quick and rather more necessary to be on the market and type of unfold this information,” he stated.

“So it was it was welcome, it was a welcome type of wake-up name in that quite a lot of instances when issues occur previously, it is easy to go away them previously,” he continued, “however when when James got here on board and advised us what he was actually coping with within the second it was a it was a really welcome reminder,.”

The guts of the two-hour strip/dance present is a message of consciousness for prostate, testicular and colorectal most cancers testing and analysis. Anderson, Van Der Beek and Diggs stripped alongside stars together with Chris Jones, Tyler Posey and Bruno Tonioli.

“I used to be approached by Fox to do that present,” Anderson recalled of the preliminary phases of manufacturing. “I used to be accustomed to The Actual Full Monty, the film, and The Actual Full Monty that they have been doing in Europe for a number of years now. And they also requested if I wished to come back on board and be the primary host for right here stateside. And I used to be like, ‘Positive, I might like to.’”

“I misplaced my organic father and three of his siblings to most cancers all inside a yr and a half of each other and a really pricey good friend of mine from school, she misplaced her battle with most cancers proper as we had been filming The Full Monty,” he continued. “So it was it was necessary for me to do the present to carry consciousness for males particularly, to go to the physician to get checked up, get a take a look at for testicular, colorectal, and prostate most cancers.”

As for the way he managed to get a bunch of Hollywood’s largest names to strip, effectively, he wasn’t completely truthful.

“I did not actually inform them precisely what we might be doing,” he advised TooFab. “Taye Diggs would most likely come over right here and say, ‘Yeah, he requested me to do the present, however he did not inform me I used to be going to get butt bare.’”

When TooFab spoke to Diggs, he admitted he had some “trepidation” as soon as rehearsals began — saying the choreography was “not as simple as I assumed” it will be.

“I am so completely happy that it is all carried out, shot and within the can. I’ll say it was within the midst of doing it, there have been nerves,” he shared. “However as soon as we had been reminded why we had been there and having that crew behind me, it made all of it simple. It was sudden.”

Impressed by the 1997 movie The Full Monty, and based mostly on The Actual Full Monty unscripted format first broadcast on the U.Okay.’s ITV in 2017, the particular reveals the solid prepare and rehearse for a giant strip-tease dance choreographed by Mandy Moore (So You Assume You Can Dance) in entrance of a dwell viewers.

The all-new two-hour particular, The Actual Full Monty, premieres on Monday, December 9 at 8PM ET/PT on FOX and streams the next day on HULU.