diff --git a/distributed/client.py b/distributed/client.py
index 0b4214f2304..1e7b96b2aa5 100644
--- a/distributed/client.py
+++ b/distributed/client.py
@@ -3595,7 +3595,7 @@ def persist(
             result = []
             for collection in collections:
                 graph = (
-                    collection.finalize_compute().__dask_graph__()
+                    collection.__dask_graph__()
                     # Currently optimize should be called on client side to
                     # fix dask keys
                     .optimize()