“Currently at the castle”, as a banner at the bottom of the image. 6:36 p.m., live, nominations: here, the two duos named are Carla and Paola, as well as Léa and Tiana. ” Nope !!! breathes Lea. “A nightmare”, abounds Tiana. This Saturday, one of the two duos will be eliminated.
When you arrive like a Martian in the daily life of Star Academy, it’s a fairly conceptual and rather addictive program until the final twist this Wednesday, November 2. This absence of voiceover, these sentences like subtitles, this series in which we enter through a back door.
It is 7 am, the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys wakes up, in any case Louis. He works hard on Beyoncé with Enola, his partner. The future belongs to those who get up early. Finally, their rival Tiana, awakened by these forty minutes of non-stop music at full blast, wonders if “it’s really necessary to work so much”. At 8 a.m., the ten candidates all rehearse, in duets.
Laure Balon’s apologies to Julien
This Saturday, November 5, a tandem will be eliminated, so two candidates at once, out of the ten remaining. Laure Balon, the scenic expression teacher, who had demolished Julien the day before, came to apologize. Like a mother who would regret harsh words, or a teacher who would have crossed the line: “I really wanted to talk to you. I cut you off, I shouldn’t have. “She breaks the armor by evoking her past as a prima ballerina, in a “very hard” world where you had to take it and close it. A good scene. Julian smiles.
This time it is daylight. The “evals” begin. Yanis Marshall, the dance teacher, already has his eyes wet with Enola and Louis. “He’s still crying, it’s not possible! launches a candidate in front of the living room screen. Chris and Stanislas then put all the teachers in agreement through their “magic”. “Damn who did they say? We both. »
It’s Léa and Tiana’s turn to sing “You are my other”, by Lara Fabian and Maurane. Then the dance: “Come on girls! shout the others from the wings. In fact, we only see rare extracts of the apprentices. It goes very quickly, on a daily basis, with the teachers on one side and the students on the other. “Tiana got eaten by Léa for singing. And they are not dancers, ”says Yanis, who no longer cries, but cuts.
Anisha and Julien now. They chose “To die tomorrow”, by Natasha St-Pier and Pascal Obispo. It’s beautiful, frankly. “He’s touching, Julien”, let go of the others in unison.
Finally, the girls. The jury is having a blast too. Then the dance, hop, without transition, like going from the beam to the uneven bars. “There was a High School Music thing, I buy, I would like to see them in high school outfits,” rejoices Michael Goldman, director of the Star Academy.
Paola « hypercoupable »
Paola and Carla remain. It sounds less fair. In fact, it was just the chorus that was a total bug. “Shit,” says Julien. It was awkward, as they say at that age. “They must give everything to dance now”, encourage the academicians in the other room. “It was very successful but only academic. I missed the X factor (the talent that makes the difference) . It didn’t touch me, that’s it, ”slices Goldman.
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Paola feels “super guilty. We knew that one person was going to bring down the other, and that’s me. She bursts into tears without us seeing her, we almost have tears too, this sound without the image of grief, what a scene, but it’s already advertising. After the tunnel, Carla “doesn’t blame her”, but still, she’s disappointed, it’s not her who missed but she’s going to pay. And Paola is still crying. “I did a lot of shit at the evaluation,” she says in her last five seconds to her boyfriend on the phone. She has to hang up even before her “Big kisses”.
“Do you have any idea who is going to be named? Tiana asks her friends. “These assessments have really disturbed everyone. If we miss, we make the other one miss”, summarizes Léa. The theater class relaxes them with its improvisations. Pierre is the nice teacher who comforts them. There is also Enola’s mother who says “I love you” to her on the phone and her daughter who cries and wants to “be in her arms”. That’s it, the Star Ac, the parents melt.