I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

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).