Taye Diggs Shares Why He Stripped Down for The Actual Full Monty and Dishes on Reuniting With Meagan Good After 20 Years (Unique)

TooFab spoke to Diggs forward of the discharge of his upcoming Fox particular, The Actual Absolutely Monty, the place shared why, when longtime good friend Anthony Anderson known as him to be on the present, he needed to say sure.

“Anthony Anderson known as me, and he stated, you understand, we’re doing this factor. It may be actually cute. The trigger is most cancers. We’re utilizing individuals which were affected personally. ‘Do you wish to do it?'” Diggs recalled. “And I stated, sure. I had no concept I would be getting bare.”

He continued, “However he is that sort of good friend the place the primary day of rehearsals, you understand, we dug into it and it wasn’t only a easy dance quantity with choreography.”

Whereas seeing Diggs strip alongside Anderson, James Van Der Beek and different stars is certainly entrance and heart of the particular, on the coronary heart of the two-hour present is a message of consciousness for prostate, testicular and colorectal most cancers testing and analysis.

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 forged will prepare and rehearse for the efficiency, resulting in a giant strip-tease dance choreographed by Mandy Moore (So You Suppose You Can Dance) in entrance of a reside viewers.

“All of us informed our tales of who we misplaced and why we felt like we wanted to be there and it ended up being far more than a favor,” Diggs added of the transferring particular.

Diggs additionally dished on his upcoming new position as a choose on The Magnolia Community’s new singing competitors collection, Second Probability Stage, which sees music competitors present contestants get a second probability at making their goals come true.

“I gotta say this has been a really thrilling time in my life as a result of I’m making decisions to do issues in another way and to step outdoors consolation zone. And I am having fun with it. I by no means thought … I beloved watching exhibits like American Idol and The Voice. I by no means thought I’d get pleasure from being a choose,” Diggs defined. “And with Second Probability Stage, it hits in another way as a result of you have got these of us that weren’t allowed to reside their dream initially. And now they’ve a second probability, in order that they’re completely different individuals, they’re performing in another way.”

“However then the stakes are so excessive that it may be overwhelming. It was very, very emotional,” he continued. “And me and the 2 different judges took our jobs very, very critically. And we felt it was an honor to have the ability to present these performers with extra alternatives. In order that’s been superior.”

Diggs added, “They get a chance to speak about their first probability. That is very, very transferring. And also you very not often get a chance to listen to that in different expertise exhibits. So we’re very, very proud.”

Elsewhere, throughout his chat with TooFab, Diggs touched on his latest Lifetime film, Terry McMillan Presents: Perpetually which noticed him reunite together with his How Stella Bought Her Groove Again co-star, Meagan Good, after 20 years.

“It was thrilling to get to know the brand new variations of one another. We labored collectively years in the past. We had been each youngsters. And we have each carried out fairly properly. And appearing alongside her, I used to be very impressed. She is… one thing else. And that is all the time nice while you understand that somebody you are appearing with is particular. And we took benefit of that,” Diggs shared.

“And she or he helped make that challenge actually… I am very, very pleased with it. And she or he performed a significant position in that,” he added.

The position additionally was one which Diggs was ready to attract on personally, with the themes of divorce and parenting current all through the movie.

The Set It Up actor shares 15-year-old son, Walker, with ex-wife, Idina Menzel, whom he break up from in 2013 after 10 years of marriage.

“Nicely, I will be frank. I did not have to attract on them as a result of I have been via it and so they have, they make me who I’m right now. So I knew that this character would have all of these qualities. It virtually felt like dishonest, but it surely all the time feels good when you may take one thing that most individuals assume is unfavourable and do one thing constructive,” Diggs, who was selling his partnership with Lysol Air Sanitizer, which kills 99.9% of airborne viruses and micro organism to get rid of odors within the air in your house, defined.

“And that was the obvious state of affairs the place I might take one thing. I used to be going via a horrible time, however now I can use that feeling right here and, you understand, profit the peace. So very not often does the world work out like that. However I took benefit of it.”

Pertaining to his partnership with Lysol, Diggs shared how necessary it’s to him to guard each him and his son from germs, particularly as soccer season is in full swing.

“I will be trustworthy. I’ve changed into a kind of mother and father that I am hyper conscious of germs. I’ve acquired a child. I’ve acquired two canines. I am getting older and it takes me a very long time to return again from a chilly. This was good timing with Lysol’s air sanitizer,” the 53-year-old actor shared. “On weekends while you’re having a sport present day the place everyone’s in your lounge and individuals are respiration, it simply makes me really feel higher figuring out that I can do away with a few of the germs.”

To see extra from Diggs, together with whether or not or not he thinks he as a future on All American after his exit from the Netflix present, beneath.