Rihanna to Play “Alien Stripper” in New Sci-Fi Movie From ‘The Fifth Element’ Director

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Rihanna is keeping it intergalactic for her next major film invasion. Luc Besson just wrapped shooting on his highly anticipated French sci-fi film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring the one and only Rihanna as what Cinema Blend has described as an “alien stripper.” Besson, know for his previous work on confirmed classics like The Fifth Element and Lucy, brought some footage to San Diego Comic-Con that somehow hasn’t found its way online just yet.

According to Cinema Blend, the footage teased at SDCC involved dancing, chairs, and a reliably great Ethan Hawke:

“The club owner, played by Ethan Hawke in a garish and colorful suit, is telling a patron that he has a great show lined up. There’s a dancer. She’s out of this world. The dancer, facing a light to create only a silhouette, walks across the stage. She’s all legs, until she puts down a chair. She straddles the chair, turns to face the camera… and we see that she’s played by Rihanna!”
Besson also hit Twitter to take questions from understandably hyped fans, revealing that he picked Rihanna for the role “as an actress, not as a singer” and was totally blown away by her performance.