Podrick has his say on the HBO hit ending in 2018: "I will definitely miss it once it's gone 

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will end in 2018 - and actor Daniel Portman has said he felt "sad" but still "very lucky" when he heard the news.

Portman - who plays Podrick Payne - told Digital Spy that he will always be grateful to the HBO series for helping launch his career.

"It was always going to happen, wasn\'t it?" he said of the show ending. "But it is sad. Nobody expected it to be as successful as it\'s been. It\'s just been a bit of a freak social phenomenon, unlike anything else that\'s ever been on television.

"You can\'t predict that, but to have worked on something that\'s so well-written and so well-directed - and so well-made by everybody - it\'s a real joy to be in that company and to have made so many wonderful relationships.

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"So it will be sad when it\'s not there, but that is the life of an actor. I\'ve been very lucky to have this amount of time getting to know a character - and it was always going to end."

as "a very individual experience" - having appeared in 27 episodes since 2012.

"For everybody who\'s been on the show, it\'s launched all of us - more or less," he went on. "All the young cast, anyway - it\'s been our start.

"There weren\'t a lot of people in the young cast who were very well-known beforehand, and now most of us have some sort of following at least. That\'s been a real bonus of the job, aside from doing something that\'s such high quality and so popular, which is always great.

"It\'s been lovely to get a bit of exposure out of it as well, which is part of the game now - it\'s about Twitter following and your supposed \'fanbase\', that\'s just part of the job now, so it\'s been very handy in terms of that."

The Scottish actor wouldn\'t be drawn though on the fate of his character Pod - or how much he\'ll feature in the next season, coming summer 2017.

"I don\'t know what my part will be - if I will be in it at all, I don\'t really know at the minute," he said.

"But I\'ve learned a lot about what it takes to be a good guy from playing Pod, so I will definitely miss it once I\'ve played him for the last time."

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