Talking with TooFab solely forward of the discharge of his upcoming Fox particular The Actual Absolutely Monty, Van Der Beek stated he is feeling “nice” after revealing his stage 3 colorectal most cancers analysis in early November.

“Thanks, yeah, feeling actually robust, in an excellent place,” the actor instructed TooFab.

His analysis is a part of the rationale he signed onto the particular, which exhibits him stripping alongside stars together with Anthony Anderson, Taye Diggs, Tyler Posey and Bruno Tonioli.

“I obtained phrase that there was a particular known as The Actual Full Monty that Anthony [Anderson] was heading up and the thought was to lift consciousness about early most cancers detection and in addition type of knock away the stigma that numerous males have round getting examined. And I believed, ‘Oh, effectively, that is good.’ I knew instantly I used to be doing it, my mind took a bit of convincing after that,” he admitted.

The center of the two-hour present is a message of consciousness for prostate, testicular and colorectal most cancers testing and analysis.

“I knew instantly, okay, that is one thing I’ve to do no matter how uncomfortable it is perhaps. However that is type of the purpose of it. If we are able to get on stage and study to bounce and strip in entrance of 1000’s of individuals alive, you’ll be able to have a dialog together with your physician and get checked and it’d save your life,” he shared.

Of his costars, he stated, “This can be a nice crew.”

“Certainly one of issues I knew that this may be, could be a extremely good group of males, a extremely supportive group,” he instructed TooFab. “And that is precisely what it was. And it actually made me notice how how necessary it’s to achieve out to individuals and get your crew collectively.”

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

As for the way his household feels in regards to the thought of him stripping on stage, the actor stated they understood the task.

“My 14-year-old, God bless her was like, ‘I do not see the draw back.’ I used to be like, ‘Wow, you are a cool human,’ She obtained it, she understood it,” earlier than sharing how his spouse Kimberly reacted.

“She was a bit of shocked that I used to be going do it, however she understood it one hundred pc and has been very supportive,” he added.

Van Der Beek lives on a ranch in Texas with and his spouse Kimberly and their six youngsters — Olivia, 14, Joshua, 12, Annabel, 10, Emilia, 8, Gwen, 6, and Jeremiah, 3.

Van Der Beek is hoping to lift consciousness in regards to the illness by opening up about his journey up to now on the present.

“That is one of many causes I need to discuss it and the purpose I am speaking about it so brazenly,” the 47-year-old instructed PEOPLE in November. “I have been coping with this gorgeous a lot in secret for some time, and previously, I’ve discovered it useful and cathartic to share issues publicly.”

“And I’ve discovered numerous help that approach,” he added. “However greater than that, I actually wished to lift consciousness.”

Van Der Beek revealed his stage 3 colorectal most cancers analysis got here as a shock, claiming his household has no historical past of most cancers and he took care of his physique and his diet.

“I would at all times related most cancers with age and with unhealthy, sedentary existence. However I used to be in wonderful cardiovascular form. I attempted to eat wholesome — or so far as I knew it on the time,” he instructed the outlet.

The daddy of six stated he seen adjustments in his bowel actions in the summertime of 2023. He presumed it was his food plan and determined he ought to “cease espresso” or strive not placing “cream within the espresso.”

“However once I minimize that out and it did not enhance, I believed, ‘All proper, I higher get this checked out.’”

Step one was a colonoscopy which he wasn’t nervous about, till the gastroenterologist walked in.

“I felt actually good popping out of anesthesia, that I would lastly executed it,” he stated. “Then the gastroenterologist stated — in his most nice bedside method — that it was most cancers. I feel I went into shock.”

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.