“Bryan Fogel didn’t set out to become a history-changing documentarian. An actor and playwright living in Los Angeles, he’d only ever directed and produced one other film before, the fictional romantic comedy Jewtopia. He had an outlandish idea for a second film, rooted in his lifelong love of cycling: a documentary focusing on performance-enhancing drugs, with Fogel as central narrator and human guinea pig. Titled Icarus, it was going to be a humorous, possibly dangerous personal look at the dirty secret behind all sorts of athleticism. “
