Downton Abbey is about to say farewell to television, but before that happens, the cast and crew members are opening up on how it feels to know they're about to say good-bye.

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On Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Downton stars as they have 11 more weeks to go before they finish. Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley on the series, pointed out how the feeling hasn't quite built in yet.

"We're coming into that final stretch really, and it being the last one hasn't really sunk in," he said. "I think it will really start having an impact when we film the last scene in the dining room or the last scene in the library or whatever, and we'll check that off the list."

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Series creator Julian Fellowes then discussed how important he feels it is to have people at older ages experience life occurrences that can be just as emotional as they would be to someone who's young.

"I like older characters to have emotional lives because I think it's truthful," the creator said. "In movieland, everyone stops being a sexual creature at about 32, or at least the women do. The men are allowed to keep going until they are 78- I've never worked that out. In my world, on the whole older people have emotions like everybody else, and I think the show demonstrates that."

Downton Abbey Season 6 is expected to premiere in the United States in early 2016 on PBS.

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