I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

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).