With Trevor DiCarlo , his best friend since he was three years old , Ledger drove across Australia from Perth to Sydney , returning to Perth to take a small role in Clowning Around ( 1992 ) , the first part of a two-part television series , and to work on the TV series Sweat ( 1996 ) , in which he played a gay cyclist .
With his best friend , Trevor DiCarlo , Ledger drove across Australia to Sydney .