--- description: The stars of "Home" talk about their chemistry, on and off the screen. title: Meet the Stars of 'Home' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6200d6c89241e553/698784415f570f023bb15cfc/home_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Home_ Star Rihanna on Alien Life: 'Anything Is Possible' ## Video: How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna [Watch (HLS stream): How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lZjUJAgB.m3u8) (1:04)  _Published 2015-03-17. On the 'Tonight Show' Monday, actor Jim Parsons revealed he's gotten really, really good at annoying his 'Home' co-star Rihanna._  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2015 2:00 PM CUT  Dreamworks  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2015 2:00 PM CUT Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin make an unlikely trio as voice talents in their new animated movie, _Home_. But defying expectations, their chemistry—on- and offscreen—is hard to deny. TIME sat down with the pop star, the Emmy-winning _Big Bang Theory_ actor and the comedy legend, in New York as they promoted their film, out March 27\. (Read the full interview in the new issue of TIME.) _Home_ tells the story of Oh, a sensitive alien (played by Parsons) who inadvertently sabotages his race’s conquest of Earth; Martin is the captain who orders Oh’s arrest, while Rihanna gives voice to Tip Tucci, the refreshingly wry preteen human who goes on a globetrotting adventure with Oh to evade capture. It’s a byzantine plot, to be sure (a cat named Pig and a car powered by convenience-store slushies are also implicated). But the core of _Home_ lies in its depiction of how connections can make one feel less alone in the world. A cast of charismatic actors who balance one another’s energies gets that job done perfectly. Watch the trio address President Barack Obama’s visit to the _Home_ taping sessions, the possibility of life on other planets (Rihanna suggests keeping an open mind, while Martin prefers a closed one) and their favorite movies from childhood. In an offhanded reference to her dating history, the pop star in the room cited _Beauty and the Beast_: “I fell in love with the Beast. That’s pretty much my dating record so far.” You can put the girl in a children’s movie, but you can’t get her to forsake edginess entirely, not that her costars seem to mind. _Read next:_ [_Affable Aliens in Dreamworks’_ ](http://time.com/3750520/aliens-home/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined")[Home](http://time.com/3750520/aliens-home/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/"},"headline":"Home Star Rihanna on Alien Life: 'Anything Is Possible'","datePublished":"2015-03-19T14:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:13:42.468Z","description":"The stars of Home and their brilliant, unlikely chemistry","url":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/","keywords":["movies","Rihanna","home"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6200d6c89241e553/698784415f570f023bb15cfc/home_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6200d6c89241e553/698784415f570f023bb15cfc/home_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Home Rihanna Jim Parsons Steve Martin","caption":"","creditText":"Dreamworks","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/","name":"Home Star Rihanna on Alien Life: 'Anything Is Possible'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna","description":"On the 'Tonight Show' Monday, actor Jim Parsons revealed he's gotten really, really good at annoying his 'Home' co-star Rihanna.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lZjUJAgB/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-17T07:29:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lZjUJAgB.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/","duration":"PT1M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3748026/rihanna-jim-parsons-steve-martin-home/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```