2016 will be the year we say goodbye to the Crawley family as Downton Abbey airs its sixth and final season. The actors, who wrapped filming last year, reunited at the SAG Awards on Saturday evening, where they won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

"The cast and the family that we created over six years–I'm going to miss that most of all," Allen Leech, who plays Tom Branson, told ELLE.com. "It's been an amazing experience and the fact that it's over now is sad. But also it felt like it was the right time to end the show as well."

Leech admitted that he does not find Branson's specific ending in the upcoming finale fully satisfying, however. He also noted we probably aren't going to suddenly find Tom and Mary Crawley together, despite the dreams of some diehard fans. "I've heard of the Brary shippers," Leech said. "Branson and Mary–Brary. Some people are rooting for that. But it would be pretty weird, wouldn't it? To find romance again inside the one family? It's like 'Well, my wife's dead. There's her sister.' It would be very strange, even for the Crawleys."

Kevin Doyle, on the other hand, says we'll all be happy for his character, Joseph Molesley: "He gets a lovely ending," Doyle confirmed. "He's the downstairs version of Lady Edith and you always feel for him. He has a great ending."

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One cast member who was not present on Saturday night was Maggie Smith, who plays the zinger-slinging OG Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, and the hands down favorite Downton Abbey-ier.

"She's so much fun," said Leech. "All my favorite moments actually are sitting down with this very amazing, down-to-Earth actress and just hearing her stories from the past. They're absolutely amazing. That and playing Bananagrams, which she's unbelievable at. It genuinely is so enjoyable to watch a true master at work and that's what she is. Every day is a school day when you're watching her."

"You know those slow-mo videos you can make on your iPhone?" Tom Cullen, who played Mary Crawley's unsuccessful suitor Anthony Gillingham, asked. "I have one on my phone with Maggie Smith. It's me and Maggie sitting at the dinner table, just waggling our faces around. I'm going to treasure that for the rest of my life. It's so spectacular." (For the record, Cullen would not give us the video.)

Doyle's favorite memory of Smith, however, takes the cake–literally. "When we're shooting at Highclere Castle you're not allowed to eat or drink inside the castle," he said. "So my memory is of Maggie not being able to come out because she was filming. I had to feed her biscuits and a cup of tea through the window. I did not spill on her. I was very careful."

Emily Zemler Emily Zemler is a freelance writer based in London.

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