In a matter of weeks, fans will bid a final farewell to The Good Wife. But saying goodbye to the good wife herself, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), also means saying goodbye to Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski). Although many initially assumed that she would serve as Alicia's chief antagonist, Baranski and the writers behind the acclaimed legal drama turned those expectations on their head time and time again. Instead, Diane served as an important mentor to Alicia as she rose up the ranks at the firm and, more importantly, provided a shoulder to cry on and a friend to share martinis with following the tragic death of Will (Josh Charles).

His murder was just a small part of Diane's growth on the series, which also saw the longtime single workaholic and devout Democrat tie the knot in season five to ballistics expert and staunch conservative Kurt McVeigh (Gary Cole).

With just four episodes to go, The Good Wife will shine a spotlight back on the couple when Kurt contemplates retiring and selling his business. Ahead of her TV husband's return and days after wrapping production on the series, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Baranski about their "complicated" marriage, the "dramatic" final episodes and closing the book on Diane Lockhart.

I understand it's been a few days since production wrapped on the series. Has it sunk in yet that it's over?

By the time we're done with 22 shows, everybody is ready for the season to be over because we're all tired. Twenty-two is a lot, and then shooting what were the final episodes had a particular kind of dramatic intensity, but we would be ending now anyway. It's not like a Broadway show where suddenly on Tuesday night you have nowhere to go because you've just been doing it. We definitely all want our hiatus and I think what will be shocking is come July when we always went back, we won't be, and it was such a really stellar group of people top to bottom, just a wonderful production team, writing, the actors and the guest actors and just an incredible crew also. I will miss the family of this show profoundly.

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What was your last day on the show on the set? Was there anything special to commemorate the occasion?

We all had a final scene that would be our series wrap on different days so I was actually the first scene up on a Monday morning and showed up at the crack of dawn and it was with Julianna and Jeffrey [Dean Morgan] and we shot a very short scene and then it was my series wrap. Fortunately, a lot of people were around and we did take pictures but it being the beginning of the day, there was no drinking of champagne or anything. I did visit the set on Tuesday, which was Jules' day, and a lot of people were dropping early in the evening, but shooting went on quite late. But what I'm told is when there was the final, final cut and a series wrap, I think there were lots of bottles of champagne. I just happened not to be there, but then there was a little get-together at a Brooklyn bar the following evening, lots of crew members, lots of great people and then we are going to have a pretty spiffy wrap party at MOMA later in the month.

Were you able to take anything from set to remember Diane and the show by?

I asked for the picture with Hillary Clinton, which had been in my office all those years until she began publicly running for office and then you can't have somebody's picture because it looks like the network is endorsing somebody. ... and I have some of [her] clothes that I'm fond of. But most of what I take is already deeply stored in my heart and in my mind. What's really great is I have the luxury now of sitting back maybe in the next year and just starting from the beginning and watching all the episodes, many of them I haven't seen. I'd love to watch the show in sequence. Although I'm not a binge watcher, I could do two or three in a row and then come back the next day. I'd love to see the sequence.

It's interesting you bring up the Hillary picture because its such an interesting time with the election and now we have Diane's husband coming back. These two always such vibrant political debates on the show so what can you tease about that?