diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
index 9ce9e66470c..2c99f40d655 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
@@ -15,12 +15,14 @@ import com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSApplicationIllegalArgumentException;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableArray;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableMap;
+import com.facebook.react.bridge.UIManager;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.UiThreadUtil;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableMap;
 import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.IllegalViewOperationException;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.Event;
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcher;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcherListener;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -53,14 +55,16 @@ import java.util.Queue;
   // there will be only one driver per mapping so all code code should be optimized around that.
   private final Map<String, List<EventAnimationDriver>> mEventDrivers = new HashMap<>();
   private final UIManagerModule.CustomEventNamesResolver mCustomEventNamesResolver;
-  private final UIManagerModule mUIManagerModule;
+  private final UIManager mUIManager;
   private int mAnimatedGraphBFSColor = 0;
   // Used to avoid allocating a new array on every frame in `runUpdates` and `onEventDispatch`.
   private final List<AnimatedNode> mRunUpdateNodeList = new LinkedList<>();
 
   public NativeAnimatedNodesManager(UIManagerModule uiManager) {
-    mUIManagerModule = uiManager;
-    uiManager.getEventDispatcher().addListener(this);
+    mUIManager = uiManager;
+    mUIManager.<EventDispatcher>getEventDispatcher().addListener(this);
+    // TODO T64216139 Remove dependency of UIManagerModule when the Constants are not in Native
+    // anymore
     mCustomEventNamesResolver = uiManager.getDirectEventNamesResolver();
   }
 
@@ -85,7 +89,7 @@ import java.util.Queue;
     } else if ("value".equals(type)) {
       node = new ValueAnimatedNode(config);
     } else if ("props".equals(type)) {
-      node = new PropsAnimatedNode(config, this, mUIManagerModule);
+      node = new PropsAnimatedNode(config, this, mUIManager);
     } else if ("interpolation".equals(type)) {
       node = new InterpolationAnimatedNode(config);
     } else if ("addition".equals(type)) {
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
index 9d7879d425d..a6ce7ff7115 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
@@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ public class UIManagerModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule
     mUIImplementation.setViewHierarchyUpdateDebugListener(listener);
   }
 
+  @Override
   public EventDispatcher getEventDispatcher() {
     return mEventDispatcher;
   }