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Did the same guy play Little Walter.......


as a young man and as the older man? He seemed to have aged quite a bit and gained weight from the time he split form Mud and the time he returned and was killed. Were both the young and old Little Walter played by Columbus Short?

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Yes, Columbus Short portrayed young Walter, and older Walter.

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Yes. They were trying to depict how he was aging himself with his lifestyle. They went a little over board I think but yes that was columbus.

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lol. I don't think they went overboard, they just didn't have the budget to do a really great job on the makeup. That's probably why nobody else looked different as the years went by...because they used it all on Columbus. Plus I'm sure the lace front wigs took a big bite out of the budget between Jeffrey, Mos Def, Beyonce, and Columbus (and most of them had multiple ones).

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LMAO. Yes you're right. I was laughing at that the fact that no one else was aging. The make up job on Columbus was at the standards of a high school play.

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I thought the 'aged' Walter looked like Bubbles from The Wire. I actually thought 'wtf is bubbles doing in this'.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

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