Downton Abbey star Jim Carter has teased the show's finale episode saying it will be a "low-key" and "muted" ending to the series.
The actor, who plays Carson in the period drama, said the ending is "satisfying" and ties up all the loose ends, "It ties up the stories, giving indications of what will happen to the people. I think viewers will be very pleased. They’ll need two hankies."
Carter also revealed to the Mail on Sunday that the show will end on New Year's Eve in 1925, "All the servants were together in the servants' hall. It was New Year's Eve, it was candle-lit, there were little Christmas decorations left over, it was dark and we were quietly singing Auld Lang Syne. That was a nice, low-key rather muted end to the thing."
He added, "We don’t finish on a climactic note. There are no explosions or charabancs going off cliff edges."
Carter, 67, admitted that he and the rest of the cast and crew were "a mess" and burst into tears after filming the last episode in series six, "I felt I should say something to the crew on behalf of the cast. I said, 'Guys, I can't thank you enough.' Then I completely choked up."
The finale will see butler Charles Carson and housekeeper Elsie Hughes finally getting married.
The ITV show began as a low-key series when it first hit British screens five years ago. It is now an international sensation, particularly in America, and is broadcast in 220 countries to 120 million people around the world.
