King of Thieves EXCLUSIVE: Michael Caine on working with cast of British legends (WATCH)

The crime film is based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015, with all but one of the thieves being in their 60s and 70s.

Caine, playing Brian Reader, joins a cast of British icons including Jim Broadbent (as Terry Perkins), Ray Winstone (as Danny Jones), Tom Courtenay (as John Kenny Collins), Michael Gambon (as Billy ‘The Fish’ Lincoln) and Paul Whitehouse (as Carl Wood) – and says the bond shown on-screen was very much reflected on set.

“I’ve worked with them before and we just had the best time,” he said, in a video seen above.

“There’s no temperament from anybody; no entourages with anybody.”

Jim Broadbent echoed: “There’s a good parallel bunch of relationships, whenever I meet up with a bunch of actors of a similar age!

“A bit of gossip about the business, and then you get to medical histories…!”

Caine remarked of the jaw-dropping plot: “There was a gold robbery at Hatton Garden. They got away with about £100 million worth of gold.

“What got all the attention was the youngest was 63 and the oldest was [in their seventies].”

Winstone said: “I was watching these guys when I was a kid!

“Half the reason you’re allowed to become an actor is because of what Michael Caine was doing and what Tom Courtenay was doing.”

Sir Michael Caine recently revealed that he had to use the C-word on screen for the first time ever when making this film.

“That was the first time I have used the C-word in a film. I tried to get them to cut it, but they didn’t,” he told The Sun.

“I didn’t feel comfortable with it. I never swear in films. If you tread on my foot in real life, I will swear.

“I am the son of a Billingsgate fish porter, so I grew up hearing it. But I would never use that word.”

The iconic actor added: “People have heard this is a comedy about a bank robbery and they thought, ‘I lost money in the thing’. People did lose money.

“The robbers didn’t think it was funny. They thought they were going to make a lot of money.”

King Of Thieves is in cinemas September 14.