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 digital camera. And he was very forthcoming and trustworthy,” Anderson instructed TooFab, earlier than including how totally different the present would have been had they filmed earlier.

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

The host shared that Van Der Beek’s resolution 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’ve got to do this,” he stated. “We now have to get out of our personal means and we’ve got 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 fast and way more vital to be on the market and form of unfold this information,” he stated.

“So it was it was welcome, it was a welcome form of wake-up name in that lots of occasions when issues occur prior to now, it is simple to go away them prior to now,” he continued, “however when when James got here on board and instructed us what he was actually coping with within the second it was a it was a really welcome reminder,.”

The center 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 acquainted with 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 return on board and be the primary host for right here stateside. And I used to be like, ‘Certain, I might like to.’”

“I misplaced my organic father and three of his siblings to most cancers all inside a 12 months and a half of each other and a really expensive good friend of mine from faculty, she misplaced her battle with most cancers proper as we had been filming The Full Monty,” he continued. “So it was it was vital for me to do the present to convey consciousness for males specifically, to go to the physician to get checked up, get a try for testicular, colorectal, and prostate most cancers.”

As for the way he managed to get a gaggle of Hollywood’s greatest names to strip, nicely, he wasn’t completely truthful.

“I did not actually inform them precisely what we might be doing,” he instructed 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 straightforward as I assumed” it will be.

“I am so completely satisfied that it is all achieved, 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 straightforward. It was surprising.”

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