Issues trying to put my Metahuman animations into sequencer

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Hi, I’m super new to UE and in 5.6,
I have made my metahuman BP, put it in a level sequence, attached a mixamo retargeted animation to the body, and attached my metahuman performance to the face… but…

  1. the neck is detached from the body! How do I reattach it?

  2. when I press play or scrub the timeline in the sequence the body and face do nothing, they don’t move… but when I grab the clip of the body animation or face animation and scrub it backwards or forwards underneath the white, now static, timeline scrubber it shows me, plays the animations attached to both the body and then head?
    ie) Animations only play when scrubbing the clips, not when pressing Play in sequencer
    Does anyone know how to fix this please. I’m so tired of Chat GPT leading me down garden paths to nowhere!

I need human UE love and help, please?!