Rihanna Avoids Tyler Perry Films Based on Whitney Houston’s Advice? .

Radaronline.com has posted a story claiming Rihanna is avoiding Tyler Perry’s requests  to star in an upcoming romantic comedy because of a warning from the  late Whitney Houston.
Although Perry took Whitney’s daughter Bobbi Kristina under his wing  after her mother’s death, putting her in his show “For Better or Worse,”  the website quotes a source who claims Whitney warned the singer that  Perry’s films were for African-American has-beens.
“Although Tyler has been courting Rihanna for a year and a half,  hoping to build a movie around her, she has rejected the idea,” a source  close to the star’s business affairs told RadarOnline.com. “Rihanna has  pointedly avoided meeting with him!”

According to the source, before Houston’s tragic death in 2012,  Rihanna, 26, met her at a party and got her take on Perry’s movies,  which include the Madea films, the “Why Did I Get Married?” franchise  and the recent “Single Moms Club.”
“Whitney put her off Tyler by warning her bluntly that ‘Tyler’s films  are for fading black stars, not rising ones,’” the source said.  “Rihanna so respected Whitney because in addition to being one of the  biggest pop stars ever, she starred in hit movies such as The  Bodyguard.”
Rihanna feels it will be better for her career to do something  similar to the 2012 science fiction war film “Battleship,” the source  said.
“She’s ruling out doing a Tyler Perry-style romantic comedy because  she thinks she works better in action roles, playing the tough girl.”
The source revealed Rihanna is “under a mandate” to get into another studio film before the end of the year.