Andy Serkis as Gollum reading Trump's tweets is as hilarious as you'd expect

Sam Haysom

Updated 12 July 2017 at 4:55 am

Andy Serkis hasn't played Gollum for a long time, but he's not afraid to dive back into the role for a good cause.

The good cause in question? A quick reading of Donald Trump's tweets.

Serkis appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was asked by the host to read a couple of examples of the president's Twitter ramblings in trademark Sméagol fashion.

As you can tell from the clip above (skip to 3:45), he nailed it.

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