Receiving animation events within visual scripting

I’m attempting to link up footsteps within an animation to an event in order to play footstep sfx. Currently my script machine won’t be considered a receiver for the animation and I get this error.
“‘Bigfoot-idle’ AnimationEvent ‘PlayFootstep’ on animation ‘Bigfoot Walk’ has no receiver! Are you missing a component?”
Here’s what i’ve tried to no success.


and of course, simply having this within a standard script works fine. Both the script machine and the standard script are on the same object too, so I don’t know why one works and the other doesn’t. I would just really like to use the visual scripting