On October 29, 2025, at the Château de Dammarie-les-Lys, Charlotte Cardin presents "Tant pis pour elle" in a preview to the students of the Star Academy. Questions fly about the intimate scenes, and the mentor details the setting, mentioning her partner, Aliocha Schneider, who often faces such shoots. From this moment, a portrait emerges: actor and singer, Schneider, between Quebec and France, clarifies his choices and method.
What the Mentor Showed at the Château
October 29, 2025, 5:50 PM: at the Château de Dammarie-les-Lys, Charlotte Cardin exclusively reveals the video for "Tant pis pour elle" to the students. In the living room, questions fly about the intimate scenes. The singer clarifies the setting: these scenes are strictly supervised, choreographed, and designed to serve the story. She also mentions, in a clear tone: in her relationship, it’s "rather Aliocha" who ends up filming this type of scene in movies or series. The images and the exchange were published on TF1+ (video posted at 5:50 PM).
A few minutes earlier, around the piano, Cardin and the 2025 class perform "Feel Good." A simple scene, blended voices, with an assumed educational effect: the mentor shows the breathing of a chorus, diction, and mutual listening.
Biography of Aliocha Schneider: Parents, Brothers, and Sisters
Aliocha Schneider (September 21, 1993, Paris) is a singer-songwriter and Franco-Canadian actor. He grew up in Quebec, within a family of artists: Vadim (passed away in 2003), Niels (actor, César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017), Volodia, and Vassili (actor). From adolescence, he alternates between stage and screen: theater in Montreal, first roles on screen, then songs written with a guitar in hand.
Films and Series with Aliocha Schneider: From Montreal to Toronto
The camera has often been his first home. As a student, he played Momo in La Vie devant soi on the stage of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. On screen, he appears in works by Léa Pool (Maman est chez le coiffeur, La Dernière Fugue), in Le Journal d’Aurélie Laflamme, and then at the TIFF from the second half of the 2010s.
2024 marks a milestone: Toronto hosts the premiere of Bonjour tristesse, an adaptation by Durga Chew-Bose of the novel by Françoise Sagan. Aliocha Schneider plays Cyril, "the boy next door" during a troubled azure summer. The North American release takes place in May 2025 after the festival circuit.
Music: ‘Ensemble’ and the Lyrics That Changed Everything
On the music side, Aliocha releases an EP (Sorry Eyes, 2016), then the album ** Eleven Songs (2017), followed by ** Naked (2020), still a very anglophone period. October 2023 opens a new chapter: a first album in French, Aliocha Schneider, where melody and syntax approach lyric-driven songs. The deluxe version (November 8, 2024) adds " Ensemble (feat. Charlotte Cardin)", extending the title "Ensemble" (2023), which became his ambassador to the French public.
The track, intimate and direct, speaks of a long-distance love seeking its place between tours and shoots. It circulates on the radio, settles in concerts, then bounces on TV shows—up to the Star Academy. Nomination of "Ensemble" at the 2025 Victoires de la Musique: male revelation, stage, and original song, reflecting an evolving audience.
Cardin–Schneider: A Two-Person Workshop, Boundaries Respected
The shared scene at the château sums up a couple’s ethic: sharing of demos, mutual listening, but clear boundaries when fiction approaches private life. Regarding the video "Tant pis pour elle," Charlotte Cardin explains that Aliocha declined to "play the couple" on screen, she discusses the reasoning and the help received to choose the actor who plays opposite her. She cautiously adds that the intimate scenes are neither romantic nor improvised: they involve discussions of lighting, angles, consent, choreography. The video and the exchange are accessible on TF1+ (links at the top of the article).
Next Appointment: The Mentors’ Prime
Saturday, November 1, 2025, TF1 dedicates a prime to the mentors of season 13: Ed Sheeran and Charlotte Cardin are announced at Studio 217. The students will sing with international guests, in a program designed to highlight vocal ranges, presence, and progression.
Context: Why His Trajectory Speaks to the French Public
The dual anchoring of Aliocha Schneider (Quebec / France) embraces a fluid cultural map: Montreal studios, Parisian sets, North American festivals, French venues. His flexible voice, slightly veiled, finds a register now identified: a neo-variety that combines whisper and clarity of articulation. His texts, simple and direct, fit into a folk-pop lineage where refrain and breath matter.
In cinema, his presence favors ellipsis: glances, silences, a way of occupying the frame without overloading it. In Bonjour tristesse, his Cyril accompanies the transformation of Cécile. Moreover, his discreet acting contributes to a staging where costumes and lighting reveal the soul of the film.
Key Takeaways
Aliocha Schneider has two paths and will not sacrifice either. As an actor, he progresses through encounters and festivals. As a singer, he builds a Francophone repertoire that touches with its clarity. The couple he forms with Charlotte Cardin is not a marketing argument: it is a two-voice workshop, where a healthy boundary is drawn between intimacy and fiction. The Star Academy news provides a sensitive snapshot, the rest will follow on stage, on screen, in songs.