Jamie Foxx is ecstatic he has managed to get veteran actor Sidney Poitier out of retirement to appear in the video for his new song Extravaganza.

The new video, featuring Kanye West , follows Foxx partying to a point where he ends up having a one-night stand after too many drinks.

"The night of the Oscars or the night of Kanye's Grammys, what I did was party with the Vanity Fairs and the MEG RYANs and what have you…", the singer told MTV.

"The minute we got a chance to take them tuxes off, we jumped in our sweats and got to the real party where cats was taking my Oscar and taking pictures with it. It was fun. (The video) mirrors that.

"Sidney Poitier is guesting in there. Sidney cancelled everything. He was like, 'I'm not doing nothing for anybody. I'm in retirement", Foxx added.

"I called him humbly like, 'Will you be in this video?' He said, 'I'll do anything for you.' We're trying to do everything not groundbreaking, but just nifty enough to where you go, 'Oh.' But we're not trying to do this big thing", the singer recalled.