Check out this piece from the British website The Sun about the awesome chick who was recruited to help Rihanna look legit in her role as a sailor in Peter Berg’s ’Battleship’.

I’m the ‘bad ass chick’ who taught Rihanna to shoot in Battleship

Ex-Navy officer is inspiration behind singer’s debut movie role

Arms ‘n’ charms … gun-totting Jackie Carrizosa

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Jackie Carrizosa is the former US Navy officer behind the singer’s tough sailor character Cora Raikes in the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Battleship.

The feisty 22-year-old brunette was the only girl playing in the US Navy’s football side when she was spotted by the movie’s director, Peter Berg, and drafted in to help the Umbrella singer sail through her first movie part.

Former gunner’s mate Jackie spent a month living millions of men’s ultimate fantasy — teaching Rihanna how to handle weapons, speak Navy lingo and even play footie like one of the lads.

She said: “We were on set from sunrise to sunset — Rihanna was really tough. She was way better than her stunt double.

“She’s not afraid to get bruised or cut. All the stuff her stunt double would normally do, she was doing herself. I taught her how to handle the weapons. When she had a gun in her hand she couldn’t stop smiling. She loved it.”

‘Bad ass’ … Rihanna based her role on Jackie Carrizosa, seen here on set of movie

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And Rihanna herself offered the ultimate praise to her trigger-happy mentor. She said: “My character’s name is Raikes. She’s a weapons officer, she’s not afraid of anything. She loves weapons, she knows them — not only her weapons, but every other weapon on the ship.

“We had this bad ass chick on set, her name is Jackie, she was also in the Navy. I was playing what she does in real life. She was all tattooed up and I just looked at her and I was like, ‘You are Raikes’.

“I watched her and really tried to get in her character. She’s fearless and she’s one of the boys and it’s really fun to explore that.”

The Sun tracked down Jackie to her first workplace since completing a four-year stint in the Navy — at a machine gun range in Las Vegas where she has continued to be surrounded by her beloved guns.

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(Jackie defends the 2nd Amendment:)

But Jackie defended the controversial right to own guns in America. She also backed gun ranges such as the one where she works.

But Jackie said: “A lot of Brits get excited around the guns, especially because we have a lot of hot girls that work here.

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“I don’t think I’ve seen a single person walk out of the range not smiling. It should be your right to buy a weapon — but it should come with great responsibility.

“As long as you are safe and following the rules then no one is going to get hurt. It’s when you get complacent and start ignoring the rules that things go wrong.

“It’s like anything. Spoons make people fat, pencils misspell words.”

Right on, sister!

Read the entire article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4239949/Im-the-bad-ass-chick-who-taught-Rihanna-to-shoot-in-Battleship.html

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Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris on the set of Skyfall

An excerpt from the article:

Naomie Harris, on the other hand, has been seen in two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and once again gets in on the exciting action, spending most of her video showing off the fire arms skills she’s learned during her training for the film. A longtime fan of the film series, she gushes over the opportunity — and looks like she’s going to give Craig’s Bond a run for his money. And footage of her appearance at the press conference announcing the film shows that Marlohe is not the only gorgeous Bond girl this time around.

And a video of Naomie Harris making us all look good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xp9ibpMo_w0

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There are only ten countries in the world that allow women to fight in ground combat, and Canada is one of them.  The mission in Afghanistan marks the first time in Canadian history that women soldiers are fighting on the frontlines.

SISTERS IN ARMS is a one-hour documentary that tells the story of three remarkable women who have chosen the most difficult and dangerous military professions and are facing combat on the battle fronts of Afghanistan.  Corporal Katie Hodges is a determined professional; Corporal Tamar Freeman is a trained specialist; and Master Corporal Kimberly Ashton is a mother who has left behind three young girls.

Who are these women and how did they get there?

We hear from veterans of the combat trades including Brigadier General Chris Whitecross, one of Canada’s highest ranking woman in the military and Lieutenant Colonel Anne Reiffenstein, the first female artillery officer. We will also meet the mothers, fathers and sisters who openly discuss their fears, and bravely support their loved ones.

In Canada, the number of women joining the combat trades has risen gradually for almost two decades, attrition remains an issue, with significantly higher rates of women leaving their military careers than men. Military culture remains a barrier, and today, only two percent (about 250 out of 14,000) of soldiers in the combat trades are women.

Using video diaries filmed by the soldiers in Afghanistan and personal interviews, SISTERS IN ARMS tells their stories, from the frontline from a uniquely female perspective, challenging our perception of what constitutes a soldier.

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The first one has a deadline approaching, so we wanted to let y’all know about it as soon as possible.  It’s a new documentary called “A Girl and a Gun” and the film makers are raising funds in order to complete the film.

Here’s a description from the website:

What does a woman with a gun mean to you?

Does Sarah Palin, Amy Bishop, Annie Oakley, or Angelina Jolie first come to mind?

Or is it your mother, girlfriend, or the neighbor next-door?

A GIRL AND A GUN is a feature documentary that explores the complex relationship between women and their guns. Filmed throughout America, this documentary delves deep into the psyche of the American gun world, capturing its transformation from subculture to mainstream as women arm themselves in rapidly high numbers.

Penetrating far beyond Hollywood’s hyper-sexualized gun-toting goddesses, this documentary candidly portrays the modern American woman through intimate portraits that revolve around fundamental issues of preservation, power, feminism and violence.

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MORE ON THE FILM: The narrative follows four women whose lives have been irrevocably touched by firearms. A Bronx social worker substitutes pistols for her loss of physical power; a gun-control activist from New Jersey reversed her stance on owning weapons after a stray bullet paralyzed her daughter; despite losing her brother in a hunting accident, a Tennessee nurse sees her own hunting as the ultimate way to provide for her family; a graphic designer from New Hampshire survived a violent rape in her thirties, and when she was viciously attacked again — she was prepared. “The second time, I had a gun.”

These journeys interweave with an eclectic cast of experts and supporting voices shaped by historical and pop-cultural imagery, photographs, advertisements, Hollywood clips, and the voices of scholars, historians, feminists, gun-rights activists, gun-control activists, and pop-culture critics who have been following this topic for decades.

We are really excited about seeing this film go to completion, and we hope you are too.  So if you are interested in helping out, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The documentary has non-profit status through their fiscal sponsor, Women Make Movies, a 501c3 organization based in New York City.  Depending on how much you donate, they have special prizes, video, pictures, and more!

Go to their Kickstarter website, and donate today, or cut and paste this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1415597080/a-girl-and-a-gun-feature-documentary.

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