Cant reference player controller in actor class

I have a custom controller BP and a custom actor class. I’m trying to reference the controller BP in the actor class so that I can access the controller “get Input Motion State”. I’ve created a variable of the controller in my actor class and exposed it. On the details panel I’m not able to use the drop-down to select the BP template (only in the object references drop down when creating the variable). As you can see by the screen grab, the tilt Vector is out of scope. What am I forgetting?

Not sure what was happening here but it’s working now. I think I just dropped a new get player controller down and lost the reference and it worked.