BLOOMINGTON, IND. -- In preparation for his next role, actor Liam Neeson is studying sex research pioneer Alfred Kinsey. Neeson and members of a film team visited Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to view its sex research collections. The trip is part of the team's preparations for a film on Kinsey expected to be released next year. It will be directed by Bill Condon, who wrote the screenplay. Laura Linney will play Kinsey's wife, Clara.

Kinsey collected histories of people's sex lives and published his findings in two groundbreaking and controversial books. He died in 1956.