Need help trying to get owner and character in playerstate

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I am trying to get the player character in blueprint in my playerstate. I can get it in c++ with out problems but the cast in blueprint always fails.

Here’s the c++ thing I am trying to accomplish in blueprint in my playerstate class

AController* OwnerController = Cast<AController>(GetOwner());
if(OwnerController != NULL)
{
    AFirstPersonCharacter* OwnerCharacter = Cast<AFirstPersonCharacter>(OwnerController->GetCharacter());
    if (OwnerCharacter != NULL)
    {
        OwnerCharacter->testfunction();
    }
}

Here’s the Blueprint function which always fails at the firstpersoncharacter cast

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I am fairly sure I am looking at this wrong but I’ve been at this for many hours over quite a few days and could just have tunnel vision.

thanks MK