Chuk Iwuji on playing Henry VI: 'there's nothing wimpy about him'
From trying out the trapeze to finding his own moral compass, the actor on the challenges of playing Shakespeare's flawed king in the RSC's history cycle My older brother died when I was finishing at drama school in the US. One of the last conversations we had was just after David Oyelowo had played Henry VI for the RSC in 2001 " the first time the company had cast a black actor as an English king. He said: "This mig…