Today on Too Opinionated we talk with actor William Davis!

Acclaimed award-winning actor William B. Davis, best known as the Cigarette Smoking Man on TV's The X-Files, is pleased to announce that his second book 'On Acting …and life will be released on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

With over 135 IMDb credits and not one to slow down, William's current roles include the villain David Choak in Upload now airing on Amazon. He can also be seen in the upcoming Netflix TV series from Mike Flanagan entitled The Midnight Club.

Dozens of books on acting exist, but none of them are quite like this. Part memoir and part master class, modelled after Stephen King's bestseller, On Writing, the book is divided into two parts.

Part one takes readers on a seventy-year journey that begins with William B. Davis, at age twelve, riding his bicycle through the streets of Toronto to his first acting classes, and eventually leads to him starring in the long-running television series, The X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. From a summer theatre in Ontario to the National Theatre of Great Britain to the National Theatre School of Canada to the William Davis Centre for Actors' Study in Vancouver, few have travelled such a colorful journey. Along the way, Davis met all sorts of familiar faces, including Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Albert Finney, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson, among others.

Although there is a lot about acting in part one, the heart of the book for an aspiring or working actor is in part two. What has Davis learned in seventy years of working both in the theatre and in film and television? A lot, as you will see. Davis's grasp of the art of acting is vast and practical. And in some ways, original. In his final chapter, Davis explores the underlying philosophy of acting and actor-training and argues for bringing the work into the twenty-first century.

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