David Duchovny said he was the “curator” of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, his character on the hit sci-fi series The X-Files, and he even had to tell creator Chris Carter about a continuity error on the Fox drama. In a new episode of his Fail Better podcast, Duchovny and Bones star Emily Deschanel discussed how they sometimes knew their characters better than the writers of the shows. And Duchovny related an anecdote from filming “Fire,” a first-season X-Files episode in which Mulder confronts a debilitating fear of fire while pursuing a serial arsonist. “I remember, like, in the middle of the episode, I had this thought,” the actor said. “I think I went up to Chris Carter — who wrote that episode, I believe — and I said, ‘Didn’t Mulder and Scully [Gillian Anderson] watch a building burn down in the pilot? And I think Mulder was fairly cool with it.
