BadGalRiRi is BOSS. Talk about triple threat: model | musician | actress .. oh did we mention a designer & overall bad-a**? RiRi’s starring in the animated film HOME which just knocking out the Box Office with $54 million in the first few days- beating out new movie ‘Get Hard’. She also just sang her new hit single BBHMM (B*tch Better Have My Money) from her album R8 at a killer live performance during the iHeart Radio Music Awards | catch it here on our blog. Now, she’s covering Vanity Fair Italia looking fresh-faced & flawless.
RiRi talks her character Tip in her movie ‘Home’:
On Tip’s love of music & how she found her own voice as a little girl in Barbados: “I love the scene where Tip plays a song to Oh, who’s never heard music in his life and doesn’t understand what’s happening, so he tries to stop himself from dancing. Music is my life forever. When I was little, in Barbados there was only one TV channel: there was the time slot of the newscast, to Beautiful, Sesame Street and documentaries”
On how she relates to her character Tip: “Tip is strong, independent. Not to be discouraged, she knows what she wants and never gives up, without waiting for the help of others. She’s a little cheeky as I was. However sensitive. It sounds strange, but I’m very shy. I can only be spontaneous if I’m fine with those around me.”
Her musical inspiration: “On Sunday, finally, there were music videos on all day. I could stay inside the whole day listening to Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Bob Marley. I enjoyed mimicking their every song. And by doing a lot of imitating I found my voice. I was only a child when I decided I wanted to do singing as a profession, which I remember very clearly. I was eight years old, and my little brother had just been born, and I told myself that I wanted to do music, music gets you places in the world where I have never been.”
On feeling like an outsider: “Oh is an alien, Tip is a human: the music is just one of many things that make them, for background, very different. But gradually they discover a number of similarities. It is the basis of friendship, when one begins to know and you stop judging them. I know what it means to feel, like them, an outsider. The first time it happened to me as a child in Barbados, was when I moved and I ended up in a school where I knew no one. And then when at sixteen I landed in New York, where I was know as “the girl who is from the island.’”
Rihanna Performing BBHMM at the iHeart Radio Awards.
RiRi at the iHeart Music Awards wearing VERSACE.
Rihanna has a close relationship with her mom, and overall family, ummm have you seen the pics of baby Majesty?? Her character Tip is close to her mom as well, she says, “I recognize a lot in the relationship between Tip and her mother. My mom is a force of nature. I know that everyone says: I have the best mother in the world. But I’m really convinced. She has always filled me with affection and has never tried, nor has judged my friends. Her presence reassures me. I’m glad it was Jennifer Lopez who got to be the voice of my character’s mother. When she speaks, I feel the same warmth and the same security that my own mother gives me.”
HOME Premiere with her niece Majesty.
HOME Premiere.
Meaning of ‘Home’ in the film vs what ‘Home’ means to Ri: “Home, in the film, is all about reuniting with the people you love. For me, they are always around, the lifeline, when I return in the evening to my hotel room, is the TV: news, reality shows, movies, documentaries, cartoons. I learned to call any place where I feel safe as home. But there is no place like Barbados. My beaches, my family, my food, my music. Home, for me, it’s right there.”
Rihanna recently was featured on TWO covers of Harpers Bazaar China.
Photographed by “the coolest chick” she’s ever met, Chen Maner.