'Set Leader Pose Component' stops 'Face' from animating

Hi all,

The player character has the following so that each physical element is aligned, see below.

In the ‘Event Graph’ I am trying to play an animation on the ‘Face’ component. It will not work while the ‘Face’ is a ‘Target’ to the leader as above, furthermore, if I remove ‘Face’ as a ‘Target’ it will look like this which is not good. How do I fix this?

With ‘Face’ disconnected, again if it was connected, the animation would not play.
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How it’s being told to animate