Ryder Strong

And he promises that he will talk to him on her behalf.

Back at the jail, the sheriff is bragging to two white visitors about their most famous inmate, Dr. Martin Luther King.

He promises to keep him around a little while longer to show off their southern hospitality.

They're literally treating him like an animal in a zoo.

And now Jonathan has arrived with Mr. West to talk to Cheyenne's dad about the movement.

They congregate at the dinner table, but Cheyenne's dad says he just doesn't have time.

He mentions his oldest daughter, Vivian, who was in the movement and got arrested.

So they had to send her up north for her own good.

And now he's lost her completely.

He's not going to let another child of his join the movement.

He just isn't hearing it.

Now, the thing I liked about this is all he cared about was her safety.

And like, I just don't want you to evolve because I lost a daughter.

But he was never angry about it.

You know, it was...

I think you easily could have gone the route of, because I said so, and we're not going to... I don't want to hear this anymore.

You're staying home and out of danger.

But it was never like that.

It was from a place of love and from a place of, I'm not going to lose you too.

Which was very powerful, I thought.