“Bryan Fogel also reveals the moment he realized his subject matter was bigger than he anticipated. Director Bryan Fogel, 45, set out with the intention of using himself as a guinea pig while investigating illegal doping in sports, but as he was making his documentary Icarus, he built a relationship with Grigory Rodchenkov, the Russian doctor who ended up blowing the whistle on his country’s extensive state-sanctioned doping program (the results of which were recently seen when Russia was banned from the Winter Olympics).”
