Cannot cast to or otherwise get reference to Player Character from animation blueprint

Hello, i’m desperately trying all sorts of ways to get this working but it just wont work.

I used multiple ways to get the leg manager component from my player character it definitely is attached to, but no matter what constellation (with or without casting) it just wont give me my leg manager. It either returns nothing or the cast fails.

I tired getting the owner and directly casting to the character BP but it just doesnt work.