Question about dialogue in F/X (1986)

Lipton the Justice Department official tells Rollie Tyler, "I really admired your stuff, ever since 'Vermin from Venus.'" Rollie's female assistant responds, "That's the one that got him deported from Australia." My question is how could Rollie have been deported from Australia, when he was born, raised and lived his whole life there? Where would he have been deported to?

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Best Answer

It is a joke:

While the actor Bryan Brown is Australian, the character that he is playing - Roland Tyler is presumably not^* (indeed, he couldn't be deported from his home country). What's more, the movie itself is produced in USA.

So the in-movie, the story goes like this: Roland made such horrible movie that he was deported from Australia, which is actually quite famous for banning overly graphic movies or games (and Roland's job is to make them indeed graphic and realistic). And it is funny because it suggests that the Australian Bryan, made such a horrible movie that now he is forced to work in USA because they don't want him in his home country.

^{* That doesn't mean that Tyler couldn't be born in Australia - he could renounce his citizenship when he has moved to USA, but this is pure speculation.}