In 2016, he starred in the French science fiction film Ares and soon after followed Section Zéro, a French TV-series about a para-military police squad in the near future. Rapace had a supporting role as Major Gibson in Luc Besson's 2017 French/American big budget comic book/science fiction film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In 2018 Rapace was one of the main antagonists in series 3 of Netflix/BBC's popular Viking drama The Last Kingdom as "Jarl Sigurd Bloodhair". Rapace joined the cast of Below the Surface (Gidseltagningen), a Danish drama about 15 innocent people held hostage underground in a subway train, as "Yusef" when it returned for a second series in 2019. Rapace starred alongside Kellan Lutz in Divertimento, an English language French thriller that came out in 2020. In August 2022 director Lukas Moodysson announced the start of a sequel to the movie Together and that the role of Lasse would not be portrayed by Ola Racace as in the original film. Moodysson explained this was per request from SF Studios. During September och October 2022 Rapace will portray Mr. Y in August Strindberg's Pariah at Lövstad Castle Theatre. Reality television Rapace was one of the participants in SVT's reality series Maestro, Where Swedish celebrities were taught the basics of conducting a classical orchestra. The series aired in late summer and autumn 2011. He was one of 5 Swedish celebrities featured in 2020 edition of popular TV series Stars at the Castle. The basis of the show is: five famous people live together in a castle or manor house for five days. Each day focuses on one person and their career, as they eat dinners and they discuss their life and career, and the other celebrities ask questions. A few months before the announcement of Rapace joining the 2020 season, he had criticized this specific reality television show. In 2021 Swedish Discovery+ announced he was one of several celebrities, including electropop musician Kleerup, and reality TV stars Jackie Ferm and Håkan Hallin, who would join the unscripted TV-series Treatment, about mental illness and addiction problems. Discovery Networks Sweden describes the series as "individually adapted medical and therapeutic treatments, composed and led by addiction doctors and therapists" on an archipelago island. Personal life Rapace married actress Noomi Rapace in 2001, divorcing in 2011; they have a son, Lev, who was born in 2003. Together they chose the surname