I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

In 2005 Kretschmann won a role in Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong where he worked again with Adrien Brody with whom he costarred in The Pianist. He never married her. It was scheduled for a March 2006 release in Germany but its showing is under injunction after Meiwes successfully sued to have it banned on grounds of infringement of his Persönlichkeitsrecht (personality rights).