There are a number of accomplished actors who have worked with infamously bad filmmaker Uwe Boll: Sir Ben Kingsley; Geraldine Chaplin; Clint Howard. And many of those actors have worked with some great filmmakers. Yet who would think to ask Kingsley how Boll compares to Spielberg or Polanski, or Chaplin how Boll compares to David Lean or Robert Altman, or Howard how Boll compares to his brother Ron. Well, Shawn Adler of MTV Movies Blog decided that it would be really amusing if he asked Leelee Sobieski to comment on any similarities between Boll and Stanley Kubrick. Surprisingly, she managed to squeeze out a decent answer — at least considering she’s on camera to wholeheartedly promote her and Boll’s film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and has to say something nice about the director.

Sobieski may not be the best person to ask, though. She was only 15 when she appeared in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, and that film isn’t even considered to be on par with the filmmaker’s regular work. Still, she obviously understands the clear distinctions between “the greatest filmmaker of all time” and “the worst director of all time,” as Kubrick and Boll are respectively labeled, and she gives a good response in saying that both ask a lot of questions and both deserve respect for getting things done and not being lazy. As for the rest, its a cop-out, though a good save publicity-wise, but still makes perfect sense as an apples vs. oranges kind of comparison. Even Kingsley, who has been in his share of terrible films (only one of which is Boll’s Bloodrayne) and likely has to defend his choices all the time, would probably say something along the same lines as Sobieski’s claim that people want to be stimulated in a “plethohra” of directions and that there’s room for intellectual films and “great” action movies.

I feel the rest of the In the Name of the King actors, including Ray Liotta (worked with: Scorsese; Mangold; Ridley Scott); Burt Reynolds (worked with: Paul Thomas Anderson; John Boorman), Jason Statham (worked with: Michael Mann), John Rhys-Davies (worked with: Spielberg; Peter Jackson), Ron Perlman (worked with: Jeunet; Annaud; Guillermo Del Toro), Clair Forlani (worked with: Schabel; Kevin Smith) and Matthew Lillard (worked with: Branagh; John Waters; Wes Craven), might privately consider Boll to be the worst director they’ve worked with, but surely none of them really minded too terribly, and any of them could have been put in the same hot seat as Sobieski and been forced to squirm through a similar situation. However, none would have seemed as graceful and honest as Sobieski manages to be in this clip. She and John Cusack deserve some kind of prize for their respective junket performances of late.