I essentially got financing to basically stick myself with a lot of needles, dope, and see how much better I would do and evade positive detection. On becoming a character in his own film, similar to Morgan Spurlock's role in “ Super Size Me': I mean, their government essentially holds no accountability to the truth, so I think that their reaction is going to stay on par with what we’ve already seen in the media to how they’ve reacted to election hacking, et cetera. We’re also going to continue to see, just like we see in the film, Russia’s denial. I don’t think that anyone can be surprised that Russia is going to be upset by this film. On a recent episode of 'Salon Talks,' Fogel commented on directing 'Icarus,' streaming now on Netflix, and his relationship with Rodchenkov.

He b ecame the center of an investigation into Russian doping during filming. Turns out, Rodchenkov, who advised Fogel on drugs, dosage and even smuggled his urine samples to Russia for testing, was the mastermind and eventual whistleblower behind Russia’s state-sponsored doping program. Grigory Rodchenkov, a pillar of Russia's anti-doping program, that catapults the film into another realm: exposing Russia’s state-sponsored doping program.

When amateur cyclist and Netflix “Icarus” director Bryan Fogel set out to make a film about doping in sports, he wanted to show how athletes master the art of evading detection by taking performance-enhancing drugs himself and attempting to pass anti-doping laboratory tests.īut while Fogel’s personal experiment is very much a part of “Icarus,' it’s the participation of r enegade Russian scientist Dr.

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