Lexi Jamieson Marsh, a filmmaker by trade, found common ground with a paleontologist, and it wasn’t over a presumed shared love of the “Indiana Jones” movie franchise.
Marsh was new to the campus of Miami University several years ago after her husband took a job there. Dr. Ellen Currano, a geology professor, was new, too, and they became friends.
One night, when the pair went out to dinner, Marsh shared with Currano some of the struggles she was having on a job.
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“I had just come off of a really rough shoot, where my looks had been commented on,” Marsh recalls. “And I had approached a producer about maybe coming in as the director for the next project, and they said, ‘Well, women always say they want to direct, but whenever I give them the opportunity, they clearly don’t want that.’ I just had hit the wall and went to meet Ellen for dinner and had been venting, and then she took a breath and she said, ‘Yeah, I feel the same way.’ That was kind of the point of no return for me, because she was always someone that I looked to, and to just have the floor taken out from under you, because all the sudden there is no escape for any of us. Everyone is treated poorly once you reach a certain level.”
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