Why the Oasis documentary ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ doesn’t show Liam and Noel reconciling
“They walked back into a room together and we filmed it, and they started and Oasis was back”
By Nick Reilly
When the Oasis documentary Don’t Look Back in Anger hit cinemas last month, many fans were confused upon learning that the film didn’t show the moment that Noel and Liam Gallagher buried the hatchet before their huge Live ’25 tour.
And it turns out there’s a very simple reason: that reconciliation never really happened.
That was one of the key revelations when writer Steven Knight and directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace discussed the film during a session at London’s Abbey Road Studios on Monday, ahead of its release on Disney+ this Friday.
“A lot of people having watched the film, have been like, ‘Why didn’t we get to see the machinations of how they got back together?’” Southern said during the Q&A session.
“But literally, they didn’t sit down and have a heart-to-heart and go, ‘You said this, you did that’. They walked back into a room together and we filmed it, and they started and Oasis was back.”
The Disney+ cut, however, does contain some brilliantly candid interview clips which didn’t make it into the film. Among them is the tender moment when both brothers discuss the difficulty of making sure they didn’t visit their mother Peggy at the same time when they were feuding. Liam then jokes that Peggy would hide Noel’s photos when hevisited her, and his when Noel visited her.
Lovelace and Southern also said it was a conscious decision to save interviews with both brothers until the end of the film.
“That’s something we talked about right from the beginning,” Southern added. “We shouldn’t see them together until much later in the film. It was important to hold off on that.”
As for their return to the stage in 2025, Knight reflected on how Noel’s “discomfort” formed a key part of the film.
“I think it was the discomfort of especially Noel, who when he first went out there, couldn’t look at the audience because he was becoming really emotional,” said Knight. “He says it [in the film] – ‘I had to turn my back because I saw all of these reunions happening’ – and that really registered with him. I think what’s important about all this is that we’re talking about unemotional English working-class folks. These are people who are not going to [express emotion] for fun. This is happening in spite of it, and that makes it more powerful.
‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’ hits Disney+ on Friday.