Robert De Niro on lunch with Noel Gallagher: “Did I go away and listen to Oasis? No!”

nme.com:

Noel Gallagher’s favourite stories to tell concerns a long lunch he and Robert De Niro shared in the south of France. The acclaimed actor had never heard of Oasis then – but told NME in a new interview that he is more familiar these days, though he still hasn’t dived into the band’s back-catalogue.Gallagher first shared news of their meeting on Instagram in 2016.

Alongside a picture of the two sat at a table seemingly in deep discussion, he wrote: “So we’ve been down to The South Of France for a few days and at a 17 hour lunch at our friends house THIS..THIS..

Actually happened!!!”Later, Gallagher told TalkSport that the lunch took place at a mutual friend’s house (reportedly U2 frontman Bono’s) – and that they’d sat together for “a good couple of hours” while he “bombarded” De Niro with questions about Raging Bull, Goodfellas and more of his most famous movies.

They also discussed Donald Trump, with De Niro “slagging off” the then-US presidential candidate (Trump would go on to be elected later that year).