Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale | Featurette: Farewell To Downton - video Dailymotion

The Crawley family faces changing times in 1930s England as Lady Mary assumes leadership, confronting social upheaval, secret pasts and more.

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00:01It was incredibly poignant, reading this final script,

00:04knowing that that's the end of a journey.

00:06It's hard to accept that it's time to go.

00:10There was a sense of coming together as a cast

00:12to give a great send-off for the characters.

00:14Very bittersweet.

00:16It's been 14 years, and we've grown up together.

00:19We are like family.

00:20We've all been there for each other,

00:22and it's really important to relish every second.

00:25You know, I've felt very conscious of that

00:28each day I've been at work

00:30is to just, you know, soak it all up.

00:32Who could have predicted that we'd be sitting here

00:35having done 52 episodes and two movies

00:37and now, you know, finishing a third?

00:39It's been quite remarkable.

00:45Knowing that this is the last one,

00:47I don't think I've got my head around it yet.

00:49It will probably be something that hits me in years to come.

00:53We all want it to be the best that it can be

00:56in a fitting way to say goodbye.

00:59We just love each other,

01:00and we love being in each other's company.

01:02Just feel incredibly grateful.

01:03We've had this journey,

01:04and people have appreciated what we've all done so much.

01:08It's extraordinary, really.

01:10I don't think I will ever say goodbye to Downton,

01:13but I don't feel like it is a goodbye.

01:19Mary will always be part of me,

01:21and the show, of course, will be,

01:23and we're such a family that,

01:25for us, it never really ends.