Rihanna not interested in `Bodyguard` remake

London: Singer Rihanna has no interest in filling Whitney Houston`s shoes in the upcoming remake of ‘The Bodyguard’ because she doesn`t want to play a singer on the big screen.

The ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker is set to showcase her acting talents in ‘Battleship’, but doesn`t want to feature in the remake because playing a musician wouldn`t be a ‘challenge’, reports contactmusic.com. "Absolutely not. I want to separate the two. I hate it when singers do singing movies all the time because you can never look at them as anybody else," she said. "I want to play a character. My whole life is playing Rihanna so being a singer in a film won`t be a stretch for me. I like challenges and being an actor is playing a role, being able to step into somebody else`s shoes, that`s the excitement," she added. IANS