Rihanna battled some bad aliens in Battleship, but now the Barbados-born beauty will tackle a friendlier version of alien life in her upcoming animated feature, Happy Smekday! Rihanna will play the lead along with The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. The movie, which is based on Adam Rex’s book “The True Meaning of Smekday,” follows an alien race that come to Earth to hide away from their enemies.