Rihanna Dreams Of Winning The Oscar For Best Actress, What Do You Think Of Her Acting Skills?

The singer’s film career has got off to a rocky start but Rihanna is determined to learn her craft and one day win film’s biggest honour – an Oscar.

SHE may have won eight Grammys, two Brits and a string of World’s Sexiest Woman awards – but Rihanna will not be happy until she has an Oscar to her name.

The Bajan singer, 29, is returning to the big screen in sci-fi action flick Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, out next month.

And while this role might be more of a summer blockbuster and light on Academy Award-winning angst, RiRi is eyeing up meatier parts so she can join Cher and Jennifer Hudson as pop stars who have won acting’s highest accolade.

She told The Sun on Sunday: “I’d love to get there one day. Who doesn’t want to be told they are doing a great job?

“Any validation that your work is impacting is rewarding. I work hard and put my all into everything I do but the rest isn’t up to me.

“I don’t think anyone makes an album thinking about winning a Grammy, or makes a movie thinking about winning an Oscar. What you do is work as hard as you can and if awards follow, then that’s great.”

As “shape-shifting entertainer” Bubble in Valerian — which is based on French comics Valérian And Laureline — Rihanna may not have taken on an obvious Best Actress role.

But the singer has not ruled out going full method in future, where she will be measured against the likes of masters of the craft Daniel Day-Lewis and Hilary Swank.

She said: “It’s pretty difficult to method act when it comes to playing a shape-shifting entertainer but, seriously, I have nothing but respect for the actors that do.

“If you look at the well-known method actors of the generation, they put in incredible performance after incredible performance. It’s no coincidence.

“I just do what’s best for the role, what’s best for me, I’d love to do something dark and different and challenge myself.”

Rihanna’s film career got off to a shaky start after she landed a Best Supporting Actress Razzie — Golden Raspberry Award — for her turn in board game-turned-blockbuster Battleship in 2012.

She recalls begging director Peter Berg: “Please protect me and make sure I’m good. I will do anything to be good.

“Don’t go easy on me. Don’t stop until you feel like you’ve got it.”

Aside from cameos in 2006 straight-to-DVD film Bring It On: All Or Nothing and the 2014 Annie remake, her only other screen outing came as the main voice in 2015 animation Home.

Rihanna describes “offering herself like clay” to her directors, adding: “You don’t do diva on film sets.”

And it appears she is moulding a bigger future for herself in film, with Valerian already in the bag and next year’s all-star Ocean’s Eight still to com