Rihanna’s appearance in the upcoming action flick Battleship (yes, based on the game; we know; it’s too late to do anything) is probably the only reason lots of people are going to see it; we’re guessing the Navy/navy connection is a little too tenuous otherwise. Anyway, here’s a video where Rihanna talks about how she developed the incredibly complex character of weapons officer, last-name-basis Raikes. Turns out she follows established movie tradition: how do you develop a strong female character? Oh, just give her one stereotypically macho trait. Like loving weapons.
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A lot: For guidance on all this weaponized love, as well as military procedure, Rihanna turned to technical advisor Jacqueline Carrizosa, who’s standard badass-female-character haircut!) Apparently, Ri took quite a bit of inspiration from her demeanor and tattoos–in her words, “[she was] Raikes!” We’re going to hope that she was filled in beforehand and that the following exchange never happened: