diff --git a/tools/dockerfile/interoptest/grpc_interop_go/build_interop.sh b/tools/dockerfile/interoptest/grpc_interop_go/build_interop.sh
index 6e162ead473..309340cb9ed 100755
--- a/tools/dockerfile/interoptest/grpc_interop_go/build_interop.sh
+++ b/tools/dockerfile/interoptest/grpc_interop_go/build_interop.sh
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 set -e
 
 # Turn on support for Go modules.
-# The make commands executed from the script eventually call `go get`, and
-# without Go modules support, those will download dependencies at head, which
-# is not what we want.
 export GO111MODULE=on
 
 # Clone just the grpc-go source code without any dependencies.
@@ -27,9 +24,6 @@ export GO111MODULE=on
 # to test instead of using "go get" to download from Github directly.
 git clone --recursive /var/local/jenkins/grpc-go src/google.golang.org/grpc
 
-# Get all gRPC Go dependencies
-(cd src/google.golang.org/grpc && make deps && make testdeps)
-
 # copy service account keys if available
 cp -r /var/local/jenkins/service_account $HOME || true