My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

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).