Billy Dee Williams is reprising his role as the Colt 45 spokesman, but this time his signature smirk and mustache are emblazoned on the can!! Billy Dee faced heavy criticism when he first signed on to promote Colt 45 back in the ’80s. Back then, he responded with …

“I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I’d appear in a commercial for that too.”

Williams comes off as debonair

Williams comes off as debonair in the new 15-second teaser video, which shows him in Colt 45 ads from the '80s and today in a darkly lit bar looking dapper in a tan suit with pocket kerchief and ascot scarf and pouring a Colt 45 can into a goblet.

"The world moves fast, but change isn’t always a good thing when you got it right the first time around," Williams is heard in a voice-over. "Because sometimes a true original doesn’t need to change a thing. It works every time."

Williams shrugs off any suggestion that Colt 45 has bad intentions. “You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason,” Williams said. “But I had never felt that Colt 45, or any beer for that matter ,was anything that was detrimental to anyone’s well-being.”