In general. I mean, Epic named it all Blueprints - that should already be self-explanatory; yet, In 9/10 cases, folks will create an actor reference thinking it is the actor instance, which it is not. It’s a reference to an instance. Casting itself is never the issue, finding a valid reference to convert to the type we want is.
It’s a pretty straightforward way to put it and should live among:
animals => mammals => dogs and: