I don't think friendship is really determined by "Does this person like the same stuff as me?" I think there's more to it than that. A friend to me is someone who actually cares about you as a person and not what you like or don't like. Like, most of my friends are actually quite different to me but it doesn't matter, I know that they have my back and I have theirs. You can talk to them about stuff, sometimes they tell me about a football game they watched the other day and sometimes I will tell them about the latest developments of Toy Story or Star Wars land at Disney lol

but that's just the small talk stuff. There's deeper conversations that we actually support each other on, we will help eachother and root for eachother, that's the kind of connection that you're looking for in a friend.