Smash (TV Series)

Let's Be Bad (2012)

Megan Hilty: Ivy Lynn

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• Karen Cartwright : This is so silly. I mean, I don't... I don't know. You sounded amazing, Ivy, I don't know why you need to do this.

  Ivy Lynn : To take singing lessons from a chorus girl?

  [takes song lyrics from Karen in flippant way] 

  Karen Cartwright : That's not what I was going to say.

  Ivy Lynn : [airily]  No?

  Karen Cartwright : Look, I know this is awkward for both of us.

  Ivy Lynn : [airily]  It's not awkward for me.

  Karen Cartwright : Well, you're acting kind of...

  Ivy Lynn : [condescending]  Kind of, what? No, tell me, how am I acting?

  Karen Cartwright : Look, you don't have to be all mad at me.

  [shakes her head] 

  Karen Cartwright : I'm no threat to you, I'm... I'm not anything.

  Ivy Lynn : Oh, my God.

  Karen Cartwright : Okay.

  [gives up, turns to leave] 

  Ivy Lynn : Can I give you a little advice?

  Karen Cartwright : [resignedly turns around, humors her rival]  Oh, please do.

  Ivy Lynn : I'm a grown-up, and I have a pretty clear sense of what I bring in to the party.

  Karen Cartwright : That's the advice?

  Ivy Lynn : No, the advice is... Don't get ahead of yourself. If I need a little dialect coaching, so be it. Marilyn got help all the time...

  [raises her eyes] 

  Ivy Lynn : all the time.

  [giggles] 

  Ivy Lynn : But she knew what she brought to the party too. And what she had... couldn't be taught.

  [contemptuously flings lyrics aside] 

  Ivy Lynn : Larry!

  [overtly sweet to man as he enters:] 

  Ivy Lynn : Ah, I've been waiting and waiting!

  [giggles and makes girlish welcoming gesture, and Karen walks away dejected] 

• Karen Cartwright : [after Ivy's song]  Hey, that was really amazing.

  Ivy Lynn : [curtly]  Thanks.

  Karen Cartwright : I got the chills.

  Ivy Lynn : Oh, my God. Just stop. Seriously. Don't condescend to me.

  Karen Cartwright : I wasn't.

  Ivy Lynn : Look, I've got a lot on my plate, but I'm handling it. And I don't care what you think, or what Derek thinks.

  [goes off] 

• Ivy Lynn : Hey,

  [hammering at door] 

  Ivy Lynn : I know you're in there! The doorman told me you were.

  [inside, in his lounge chair, Derek shakes head, gets up] 

  Ivy Lynn : He didn't try to stop me, he was so nice... and he treated me with respect.

  [Derek opens the door of his apartment] 

  Ivy Lynn : Do you even know what that is? Respect?

  Derek Wills : You're drunk, Ivy. What are you going on about?

  Ivy Lynn : Oh no. No, no, no. I'm not the problem. You are. You blow so hot and cold, I don't even know what day it is anymore. You are so hideous to me!

  Derek Wills : I'm probably hideous.

  [turns his back on her, walks away down hallway] 

  Ivy Lynn : You humiliate me! When you're not ignoring me! Half the time I feel that I don't even exist

  [tosses her handbag after him] 

  Ivy Lynn : for you in there.

  [stamps her foot] 

  Derek Wills : No one does.

  [advances] 

  Derek Wills : I'm not kidding. And this isn't some big romantic statement about who I am as an artist, it is just a fact.

  Ivy Lynn : [drunken giggle]  Don't give me...

  Derek Wills : Don't give you what? The truth? Isn't that what you came here for? Look, I'm building something in that rehearsal room, abd with all due respect, it would be a lot easier if everyone pretended for five minutes... not to have all of those annoying feelings, because frankly, they get in my way.

  Ivy Lynn : Theater is about feelings!

  Derek Wills : Oh, you can have feelings. They just have to be about Marilyn. I'm not kidding.

  [turns around, walks away] 

  Ivy Lynn : I know you're not.

  Derek Wills : [stops, turns around]  Are you staying?

  Ivy Lynn : [softly]  Are you asking me to stay?

  Derek Wills : [comes back]  Come on.

  [takes her face in his hands] 

  Derek Wills : Don't be mad at me.

  [kisses her]