While Oyelowo plays classic character Long John Silver, Atwell plays Bess, the mother of protagonist Jim Hawkins, whose role has been significantly expanded.
"I read the novel in my teens, and I don't remember any women in it really," Atwell said. "So when the offer came through, I was like, 'Who do they want me to play, the parrot?'"
Atwell said of the series: "Obviously it has the heart and the spirit and the themes of the book, which is about greed to an extent, but also the pursuit of one's own destiny, calling, also the responsibility that comes with power, and how that can be easily corrupted - all of that was of course, in this series too.
"But also, I was realising how much of the words of that pirate swashbuckling world had come from the book that we use in phrases, and that you kind of see in the cultural lexicon in a way, and how influential the language of that book has been."
"I wanted to be an astronaut, a cowboy and a pirate, and I've now played all three," he explained. "So I have the trifecta with Treasure Island. But yeah, I think there's something, in terms of those genres that I've just mentioned, this one is the one that I think is just the most unadulterated in terms of adventure.
When asked for their favourite scene or sequence in the series, Oyelowo said he liked Atwell's fighting, while she confirmed that it was her idea for Bess to get involved in a fight.
View Green Video on the source website"There were very few of them, of course, but they were extraordinary forces of nature. And I thought, inspired by someone like Grace O'Malley, to have Bess there with her gowns on and all her finery, but also being able to whip out a gun and use it in a way that feels true to who we've seen her to be by that point - someone who is sort of making it up as she goes along, grabbing whatever she can around her to use as a weapon or as a defence.
"She's always in some way fighting. So that felt like an absolute natural progression of what had already been written."
"That was some of the most fun stuff," he said. "And when you're having to navigate having a peg leg, and the fact that with the way we're doing on Long John Silver, it may seem like a weakness, but it's actually kind of a superpower for him. He wields it as this sort of wooden club that he uses in these fights as well. That was a lot of fun."
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