‘Smash’ star Jack Davenport is ready for good time as bad boy

As the brilliant but caddish director-choreographer Derek Wills on the new NBC musical drama “Smash,’’ Jack Davenport gets to exercise his inner bad boy. “No one’s asked me to be sociopathic for ages, and I’m thrilled to be doing it now,’’ he says. We caught up with the drolly comic British actor recently at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif.